The Ashes Where My Love Burned

Synopsis

My childhood friend Joseph Knight once saved my life. I never forgot it for ten years. Then, ten years later, he showed up in his general's uniform. I thought he had come to propose. But he said, "Go marry for peace in place of the woman I love. That will repay me for your life." The handkerchief I had been embroidering for three years fell to the ground. He bent down, picked it up, and pushed it back into my hands. "Take it," he said. "If you get bored on the road, you can look at it." That day, I agreed. The moment I turned away, I burned that handkerchief to ashes.