Due to the request of the hopeless romantics in my fan base, I have posted this alternative ending and subsequent entirely new chapter to the original, GLORIA: FIRST TIME. Earlier in the original story, at the age of 68, Gloria goes back to her 50th class reunion and reconnects with Jack.
Torry, 13 is very independent. Because her parents are going on a Summer Cruise she is forced to spend her summer, on a rickety old farm, with her Uncle whom she hates. Soon she finds out that hate is not the emotion she is feeling as she blossoms into a woman.