The Four Winds By Kristin Hannah

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chapter one

Elsa Wolcott had spent years in enforced solitude, reading fictional

adventures and imagining other lives. In her lonely bedroom, surrounded by

the novels that had become her friends, she sometimes dared to dream of an

adventure of her own, but not often. Her family repeatedly told her that it

was the illness she’d survived in childhood that had transformed her life

and left it fragile and solitary, and on good days, she believed it.

On bad days, like today, she knew that she had always been an outsider

in her own family. They had sensed the lack in her early on, seen that she

didn’t fit in.

There was a pain that came with constant disapproval; a sense of having

lost something unnamed, unknown. Elsa had survived it by being quiet, by

not demanding or seeking attention, by accepting that she was loved, but

unliked. The hurt had become so commonplace, she rarely noticed it. She

knew it had nothing to do with the illness to which her rejection was usually

ascribed.

But now, as she sat in the parlor, in her favorite chair, she closed the

book in her lap and thought about it. The Age of Innocence had awakened

something in her, reminded her keenly of the passage of time.

Tomorrow was her birthday.

Twenty-five.

Young by most accounts. An age when men drank bathtub gin and drove

recklessly and listened to ragtime music and danced with women who wore

headbands and fringed dresses.

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