Goodnight to My Thoughts of You
Chelsea Rotunno
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Goodnight to My Thoughts of You
Chelsea Rotunno
Copyright © 2014 by Chelsea Rotunno
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Publisher’s Note: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are a product of the author’s imagination. Locales and public names are sometimes used for atmospheric purposes. Any resemblance to actual people, living or dead, or to businesses, companies, events, institutions, or locales is completely coincidental.
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Goodnight to My Thoughts of You/ Chelsea Rotunno. -- 1st ed.
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Contents
Part One
Chapter 1 – Postcard
Chapter 3 – Siesta
Chapter 4 – Good Friday
Chapter 5 – The Grove
Chapter 6 – The Pier
Chapter 7 – The Park
Chapter 8 – Goodbye
Chapter 9 – Poems, Letters, and Prom
Chapter 10 – Graduation
Chapter 11 – Crushed
Chapter 12 – Wyatt
Chapter 13 – Houseboats
Chapter 14 – I Made Her
Chapter 15 – Good Enough
Chapter 16 – University
Chapter 17 – Bad Haircut
Chapter 18 – Obsessed
Chapter 19 – Broken
Chapter 20 – Training
Chapter 21 – Therapy
Chapter 22 – Bryson
Chapter 23 – Morgan
Part Two
Chapter 24 – Faulkner
Chapter 25 – Not a Date
Chapter 26 – New Year’s Eve
Chapter 27 – True Love
Chapter 28 – Goodnight
Chapter 29 – Surprise
Chapter 30 – Running Away
Chapter 31 – So I’m American
Chapter 32 – Funeral
Chapter 33 – Vancouver
Chapter 34 – Where Are You Now?
Chapter 35 – Special Delivery
Chapter 36 – Sunset
Excerpt from Heavenly Here With You
Discussion Questions
to accompany Goodnight to My Thoughts of You
Discussion Questions – Chapters 1-3
Discussion Questions – Chapters 4-6
Discussion Questions – Chapters 7-9
Discussion Questions – Chapters 10-12
Discussion Questions – Chapters 13-15
Discussion Questions – Chapters 16-18
Discussion Questions – Chapters 22-24
Discussion Questions – Chapters 25-27
Discussion Questions – Chapters 28-30
Discussion Questions – Chapters 31-33
Discussion Questions – Chapters 34-36
Follow-Up Questions
About the Author
For Rebecca
And All My ISI Girls
With Love
The Lord is near to the brokenhearted, and saves the crushed in spirit.
―PSALM 34:18 (NRSV)
Part One
Last week I exited the freeway in my white minivan just as he entered the freeway in his black Porsche. We looked at each other for a second, nodded, and went forward with our lives. That was when it all came rushing back to me—longing, confusion, soul-ache.
I could still feel the impression of his hand on my lower back when he said hello after church. I could still see his handsome face across the blanket at the park as he asked me how quickly I could finish college. I could still hear his gentle, raspy voice during a late phone call on a school night, asking me when he could see me again.
“Oh my gosh, that was Paul, that was Paul!” I shouted to my husband, turning in my seat so I could watch his Porsche disappear behind us. My husband looked at me with wide eyes.
“Sheesh, what was that about?” he asked.
“Who is Paul, Mom?” my daughter asked.
I kept driving.