If Only Again

“Have you ever felt like things in your life were moving too fast you may spin out of control? Yet to slow down all the things you care about would make you cease to exist. Like the carnival rides spinning round and round, the on-lookers representing your life, one great whirlwind of faces and colors, maybe people you just meet in passing or maybe those who always have been there. You can only reach for them, but never get close enough to touch them, and yet you feel as if you were hardly moving when your eyes are shut.”---from If Only AgainIn this coming of age tale, first time author David Ferrell paints a lovely marriage between the poetry and dialogue that surrounds the love stories of each generation---having chosen different paths, one family discovers what might have been If Only Again.Separated by war, young lovers reunite and the ties they have weaved begin to unravel as their love story unfolds. Circling between past and present, Kathryn Clarke discovers the truth that haunts her past. How he came to her, and soon left her. Somewhere in between it all when they had fallen in love, and shared an unforgettable summer together. A time when love was all they needed to survive, of when she was seventeen.“That was the last time I heard from him. A few months later, I thought I passed him on the street, but it was not him. All the while I still felt him with me.” --- from If Only Again