BROKEN by RENAE NAIK (distant reading TXT) 📖

Brian had put every last penny on her name. She was filthy rich and even though so young, she was mature and responsible. She tried on many occasions to contact Evan but he had moved to another country with their aunt. Even though she had it all now, she was all alone. She had no one to share it with. Her only choice was to befriend her loneliness before it became her weakness and consumed her. One morning while sipping on coffee, she had this strange idea and being the enthusiast she was, she decided on the spot to open up a safe haven for girls that come from poverty stricken homes or living on the street. She managed to find and old hotel for a fairly good price and had it revamped. It would house approximately 250 women and children comfortably with a few additional facilities. They would be provided with food, toiletries, clothes and even education. Nadine felt that Brian would be proud of her. The love he gave her was enough to help her help those in need and she was very right. That very next morning, she came out of the shower and was amazed to find the blurry words "I love you gorgeous xoxo Brian" written on the misty bathroom mirror. She cried as emotion took over her and from that day onward FOR THE BROKEN  would be home to any woman that's in need, young girls who turned to prostitution, women living with HIV and women who have been abused. Nadine still runs it and even though she is now 74, she hasn't married, hasn't had any children and hasn't taken off the wedding ring Brian had placed on her finger which is now covered in wrinkles.

 

On a stone in front of the haven, she had the following engraved:

 

I feel you,

In the sunsets that I watch,

In the road trips I take,

In the books I read,

And in the ones I write,

In the songs I hear,

In the breeze I feel.

 

I feel you...

In the things that make me happiest

 

- Brian I am Missing u always.

 

No matter what life threw at her, Nadine Montiere didn't forget where she came from or the lessons that life had taught her. She came from nothing and ended up with everything but she didn't let the sweet taste of the good life wash away her bitter taste of poverty. Even though she would be broken forever, She was a remarkable woman and to the people, young and old alike, that is how she would be praised and remembered because... That was who she was.

 

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Text: RENAE NAIK
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Cover: RENAE NAIK
Publication Date: 05-17-2019

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Dedication:
...And I'd give up forever to touch you, Cause I know that you feel me somehow You're the closest thing to heaven that I'll ever be. And I don't want to go home right now And all I can taste is this moment And all I can breathe is your life Cause sooner or later it's over. I just don't want to miss you tonight And I don't want the world to see me Cause, I don't think that they'd understand. When everything's made to be broken I just want you to know who I am. And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming Or the moment of truth in your lies, When everything seems like the movies... Sometimes you bleed just to know your alive. ~Iris -goo goo dolls