She stopped spinning and looked up, breathless, smiling for the first time in years. The quote from her mirror came back, but this time with a new ending she wrote herself:
Not since the accident that took her husband, Leo, had she let her body move to anything other than the mundane rhythm of work, sleep, and surviving. She lived in a grey apartment with drawn curtains and a calendar where every day looked the same.
At first, she just stood there, trembling. Then her right foot moved. Then her left. A slow, clumsy sway. The rain drummed a wild rhythm on the hood of the coat— tap, tap, tap-tap-tap —and she began to turn.
Then she closed her eyes.
She remembered the quote she’d once taped to her mirror: “Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.” For seven years, she had only been getting wet—enduring the downpour of grief without letting it touch her soul.
11. “Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.” — Bob Marley 12. “I think I love rainy days more than sunny ones. They feel more honest.” — Unknown 13. “Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.” — Mark Twain (rain's companion) 14. “Let us dance in the rain, not wait for the storm to pass.” — Vivian Greene 15. “Rain doesn't stop love; it only washes away the things that don't matter.” — Unknown
