infatuation and hadn't lasted.

He was a wonderful man and had

been her loyal friend for coming up
to ten years now. They knew each other very well. She had to smile
when she thought back at how
they had met. Justin, now a newly appointed judge, had been a
young lawyer at the time and she had
been just eighteen, fresh to New York from high school and Vermont.
He had been a public defender
and had been assigned