“How did I manage to get you to love me,” he once asked her.
He was driving her home after work. She had just kissed him on the cheek.
“You didn’t manage anything,” she said. “You were being yourself. That was enough.”
Ed had big plans for his life and now they were Carrie’s plans too. He would work at the Husky Station for the next five years and Carrie would work at the restaurant and together they would save enough money for Ed to open his own garage, probably in Sault Ste. Marie where there were far more people and far more cars. Carrie would then quit her job and they would have children, which she would have time to raise properly. The plans that she and Ed shared made Carrie even happier she was getting married.
Despite all this, there was something ever-present, impinging on he
