Evelyn sat on her rock by the sea and gazed out at the setting sun. She would never again be able to look at another sunset the same way. They held too many memories…

Dear Evelyn…

There is one place I can go to find warmth, and that is to think of you…

Dearest Rafe…

Every night I look at the sunset and try to draw its last ounce of heat into my heart, and send it from my heart to yours…

She shook her head, pushing away the past and reached into her pocket, pulling out a small piece of yellow paper that she always kept by her side. Slowly, she opened it, her heart soaring with each word she read. She closed her eyes and smiled, remembering…

Two pairs of legs stuck out of a shiny black Buick convertible, one from each direction. Inside, Danny rested his head on Evelyn's shoulder, and she on his. The two of them giggled like young lovers, and joked about how Danny was going to get the car out of the sand.

"I…uh…wrote something for you," he finally said, sitting up and retrieving a small yellow paper from the pocket of his Hawaiian-print shirt. "I've always had this dream that I could write something, ya know? Something worth reading," he began. "Rafe…he always said that I could, but I never did. But when I woke up this morning, I couldn't get these words out of my head. I guess they came from my heart." He cleared his throat and began to read:

I soared above the songbirds

And never heard them sing

I lived my life in winter

And then you brought the spring.

Evelyn's eyes filled with tears, as she sat up in the seat beside him, a wide grin spread across her fair cheeks.

"Evelyn, I…" She leaned forward and wrapped her arms around him, covering his lips with her own before he could continue. He smiled, but pulled away to speak. "Evelyn, I know I'm not Rafe, but…"

She silenced him again, this time by putting her finger to his lips. "Danny…I know that you're not Rafe. Okay? I know. Rafe was my first love, but that doesn't change the way I feel about you; you're so special to me. And I know that I'll always have a place for Rafe in my heart, just like I know that you will, too," she told him, putting her hand on his right cheek. "Rafe taught me how to love. But you, you taught me how to live." She kissed him briefly, then pulled him into an embrace.

Danny smiled, as tears found his big, brown eyes; and he knew that everything was going to be all right.

Evelyn opened her eyes, and took one last look at the setting sun, and she prayed. She prayed that God would safely bring home both the man that she loved, and the man who taught her how.