seventeen-i

Updated: May 9, 2025

And finding his gray eyes pleasantly fixed upon her she had gone on, confused but determined: "I'm twenty-seven now-and perhaps I might have married some other man before this except that-when I was seventeen-I did fall in love with a man! And we were to be married !" She had stopped short; it was incredibly hard.

Kathleen Thompson Norris - Harriet and the Piper