Trying Not to Love You — Laurel Trivelpiece

MARK WAS JUST TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE...

Mother couldn't believe it. She'd just been complaining that I never had any boyfriends. Then Mark's dazzling smile and sunny spirits changed my life.

Mark was full of surprises. An orphan from Iowa. he wasn't at all like the fast kids he ran around with -- he was only helping a guy on probation straighten out. That was the good part.

Then Mark told me the rest. He was going back to Iowa next month to enter the seminary. He would become a priest Mark was going to start a life no girl could ever share. But I knew how deeply his love for me touched him, tempted him, tormented him.

And now too suddenly. I'm being asked to make a decision know is going to haunt me for the rest of my life.