Salvaging the Heart
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WHAT IS THE CHROMIUM ANGEL?When Grace and Harry were out on a photo shoot, Grace stumbled across a natural sculpture by a shade tree in the middle of the pasture. At first, it appeared to be the mangled wreck of a car, but on closer investigation, the out-of-control vehicle (implacable force) had collided with a tree (immovable object) and crumpled the chrome fender into the upward-surging form of an Angel, with its up-swept wings clasped together in an attitude of prayer. When the sun glanced off the tip of those wings, it created a sparkling star. Grace wrote a poem about it. She was convinced that it was praying for the souls of all those who had lost their lives in road accidents, but the Chromium Angel offers a challenge of a different sort...WHAT IS ITS CHALLENGE?To take that which is broken and distorted in ones life, and create something that is beautiful and inspiring.WHO WILL RISE TO THAT CHALLENGE?Love is just around the corner. The words of the newspaper horoscope hit Grace Winston, a writer of romantic fiction, right between the eyes. She thought that if she knew which corner, she could avoid it. Grace, at forty-two, had yet to write a happy ending for her own love story. Still, there was always hope. Graces Toronto lifestyle was tumbling around her ears like that crumbling old fire-trap she called home. Fear for her future looms large.Harry Grant is a widowed photographer, a little younger than Grace, father to teenage twins. He makes his home just outside of Guelph, and although successful in his work, Harry has lost control of his life, and he spends much of his time in his darkroom to escape the crawling chaos of his home-front. In fact, dark room is an apt metaphor for Harrys life.Harry is in Toronto, visiting his mother, when he and Grace meet under mysterious circumstances, and try to begin a relationship. However, as if getting in sync with the whimsical and erratic Grace isnt challenging enough, trouble stalks at home. When Harrys
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