CHAPTER ONE
From the time I was seven I loved My Aunt Katie. Her green eyes, kind smile and red hair made it easy. She would smile at me and I would melt inside. She knew it. Many times she would wink at me and I would blush. I would find any reason I could to run away out of embarrassment. But she would find and corner me. She would always put me on her lap. Many times she would sing to me, until I fell asleep in her arms.
Time moved on. I joined the U.S.Coast Guard and became a helicopter pilot.
I never forgot about Aunt Katie. And I so missed those times I had with her.
Now being twenty five, I think of her more.
I wrote to her when I was in boot camp and on various deployments.
She would write back. Then there were the letters I wrote that I never sent her. The ones expressing how much I did love her.
From the time I was Seven until now. I could not get her pretty face out of my mind.
She permeated my dreams. I dated and had relationships with other women. But nothing serious.
Those green eyes, that smile, that red hair, captured my heart at Seven. And it stayed captured. l never saw a prettier woman in a sun dress than Aunt Katie.
I was visiting home one day on leave, I had thirty days.
Mom and I were having coffee in the kitchen. I asked her about my aunt.
Mom told me about Aunt Katie's bad marriage and recent divorce. I also learned she had been abused and lost a baby.
"Katie is back here, she has an apartment across town." She gave me the address.
"How old is Aunt Katie now mom?"
"Thirty Eight, why?"
"I thought she was older."
"No, She's only thirteen years older than you."
CHAPTER TWO
On the drive over I kept thinking of what I would say. Especially in light of what she was going through.
I even debated about giving her the letters.
I knocked. "Who is it?", I heard her say.
