Harriet's Hope (The Alphabet Mail-Order Brides Series Book 8) Page 11

  Home, Harriet realized, is not so much the place, but who you share it with.

  Before leaving the safety of the Wigg School and Foundling Home, Harriet knew she’d been afraid. If it wasn’t for Madam Wigg urging her to go, and step outside of what she knew, she would have stayed in that school her whole life.

  And maybe life would have been good there too, for she would have been with her friends forever. But sometimes Harriet wondered if people had to go their own way so they could gain their own strength and courage.

  She’d been afraid people would judge her for the fact she limped, and that the man she had chosen would not like her for it.

  Now, though, Harriet knew that sometimes you have to learn to love yourself first and accept yourself before others will ever be able to. And that no matter what people think, as long as you’re happy, and doing what you feel is true to you, their judgments aren’t worth thinking about.

  While she still missed all her friends back in the city, she knew she would never go back. She’d experienced so much from coming out here and had met such wonderful people. And was now able to teach in a way Madam Wigg would be proud of, and there was nothing more Harriet could ever want.

  She had learned so much, and the most important thing of all, was how to love herself for everything she was.

  “That’s beautiful.” Matthew’s voice pulled her out of her thoughts as he kissed her cheek, before looking to the painting once again.

  “I finally realized what I was missing all those times I tried to paint our home. I didn’t put us in the picture, and to me, any place is home as long as I’m with the people I care about.”

  “I love you, Harriet.” He leaned down, their lips meeting, and Harriet knew she couldn’t be happier than she was right now.

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