My Connecticut Garden by George Valchar

My Connecticut Garden by George Valchar

They were young and in love, yet they had never met.

They lived half a world apart. Until .

Fifty years later, Sandy opened a musty box containing long-forgotten treasures -- reams of fading letters and her battered old diary. Reading them transported her back to another era, when the Beatles ruled the air-waves, 'love-boats' plied the seas, and the times they were a-changing.

She re-lived her fun-filled cruise to Europe, recalled the joys of living in swinging London and laughed through every moment of her hilarious romp through Europe. But it wasn't all fun . she vividly remembered her anxiety at boarding a ship alone at 21, the heartbreak of partings and the courage needed when she found herself alone and penniless.

Sandy not only survived, she thrived .

but her final triumph surprised even her.

This was her Rite of Passage.