Throughout the years that Veritas has spent trying to rear me, there's one essential truth she's always stuck to. "Love is stronger than mountains." My mother's name meant truth. But could any of us trust her to tell the truth about our family?
As Ruth stands at the altar promising love to this young man till the end of her life, under her breath she makes another vow: to set down everything of the past - the reality of a girlhood constantly touched by sadness, yet always profoundly secure.
