Vera's Book Corner

A week later, early in the morning, Tessa called Valerie to tell her that a letter from some magazine from New York had arrived for her at their parents' house. Last year, while Valerie was searching for a new apartment to live in with Timothy, she gave her parents' address to every place where she applied for a job. If someone decides to reply to her, the risk of losing the mail is smaller if she gives her potential employers a permanent address. Valerie left her breakfast unfinished on the table. She just grabbed her bag, and all excited, she left her home. "Finally, someone replied", that is what she was thinking of, all the way from her apartment to her parents' house. It never crossed her mind that this could be one of those letters where they inform her how much they regret not being able to offer her a job at the moment, but they will reconsider her application in the future. She had some sort of inexplicable feeling that this time, the news would be goo...

By the end of the spring, in Mrs. Wilson's shop arrived the new summer collection, and Mrs. Wilson and Valerie were busier than usual. At work, there were only two of them, and they had to do all the work. To serve the customers, and to start with the unpacking. The people couldn't get into the shop because of the boxes with clothes, which were all over the shop. The loyal customers arrived at the same moment when they heard about the new collection, and they were impatient to try every piece of clothes that arrived. "I don't know... I'm not sure... I think in this dress I look much bigger," Mrs. Kingsley said with hesitation while she was looking at herself in the mirror. "That's not true, Mrs. Kingsley. You look beautiful in that dress, but if you want, I can show you more dresses," Valerie said, and she went as fast as she could to find different models for one of their most loyal customers. "I haven't seen these models." ...

The old Greek myth says humans used to have four arms, four legs, and a single head made of two faces. The humans then had a great strength, and fearing their power, Zeus split humans into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves. And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment. If the old myth about soul mates is to be believed, then Valerie and Timothy found their other half when they were only eight, at the moment she walked into the classroom on the first school day of the second grade. Her mother got a better position at The University of Santa Monica, and Valerie replaced rainy London with sunny California. "Children, this year we have a new student in our class. This is Valerie Patterson, and she came from London. Please, everyone, be nice to her and make her wel...