Memoirs of a Broken Mind
October 31, 1906
1386 Lorrington Post, Westminster Abbey,
London England
It was the misty, cold, grey, last day of October in the year 1906. I was in London, England awaiting my coach to the port. I was leaving for the United States of America for my arranged marriage to Jacob Black. I was only 16 years old. I turned 16 only last month. And now, I was engaged to be married.
My parents, Charles and Renee, have been very supportive. But they want me to get married to a family friend to keep the wealth. Charles was a very simple man. He enjoyed the good and simple things that life had to offer him. Renee was a whole different story. She was kind and gentle, somewhat like my father, but a very energetic, free-spirited person at the same time.
As I boarded the coach, I thought of the life I had here in England, and how I was going to leave it all behind for a marriage I didn't even want. My life in England had been a blast. It was joyous and filled with adventure. But it's too late to look back now. I had already arrived at the port area where I was to board a boat to America to be bound in matrimony for the rest of my life. It's too late to turn back now.
-Isabella Marie Swan