There are stories of love too such as \u201cThe Natural Way of Things\u201d and \u201cDeceptions of Youth\u201d, the latter dealing with the differences between love and infatuation, the country boy\/town girl relationship taboo, and the romantic vs. pragmatist outlook on life and love.<\/p>\n

It is said you never forget your first love, and Dan Stanton has never forgotten Megan O\u2019Brien. Decades later, Dan has an opportunity to see Megan as she owns a summer place on the Miramichi. As he sits in his car in her driveway he peers into the rearview mirror and thinks to himself:<\/p>\n

Why would I do this to Dan Stanton again? Why would I dig up a grave that has taken a lifetime to sod over? It is a question there is no mature answer for. It is like another power, one stronger than human, stronger than good common sense, has overtaken me and I am going against my better judgement, putting myself in a place where i should not be. Again.<\/em><\/p>\n

At forty pages, \u201cDeceptions of Youth\u201d is one of the longest stories in the book, and has all the makings of a an excellent novel, but Mr. Curtis manages to span the intervening years of Dan and Megan quite adroitly while maintaining the mix of emotions Dan has carried with him all those years.<\/p>\n