Nora Roberts
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For Jason and Kat, as you start your life together. May the garden you plant root strong, blossom with the colors and shapes each of you brings, and both of you tend, so the blooms flourish.
Part One. DEMO
The past cannot be presented;
we cannot know what we are not.
But one veil hangs over the past,
present, and future.
– HENRY DAVID THOREAU
ONE
According to legend, Steve McQueen once swam buck-naked among the cattails and lily pads in the pond at the Little Farm. If true, and Cilla liked to think it was, the King of Cool had stripped off and dived in post The Magnificent Seven and prior to The Great Escape.