A Drop of Dew: A Tragic Love Story

By Raja Sharma

Then came the horrible news. Sue remained in the hospital in Bombay for two months but doctors failed to save her. The virus remained undetected though they performed many tests on her.

The world of Cathy and Drew was shattered. That twinkling voice of Sue had been silenced forever. Nothing came back with them when they came back to Bangalore. Only a few photographs of Sue came back with them.

Monalisa rushed to their house and hugged Cathy tightly. They were weeping and remembering Sue, their lovely child. The period of mourning lasted for many days and Cathy left her job. She did not want to go out. She would talk with the dolls of Sue.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Raja Sharma
• Release date: Dec 21, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301191529

Raja Sharma

Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.

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A Drop of Dew: A Tragic Love Story

Raja Sharma

Copyright@2012 Raja Sharma

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Chapter One

Everyone liked the little girl because she was sent by God to be loved by all. She was a kind of fairy in human form. Almost everyone from the locality attended her funeral. They carried the coffin in a single file procession up to the Central cemetery in Bangalore. All had tears in their eyes.

Beautiful calm blue eyes, brown complexion-glowing skin, extraordinary and graceful features, and innocent laughter, she was an enormously attractive little girl. Her sweet talk had the mesmerizing power to pull anyone towards her. Good breeding was obvious in her every action and manners. People often said that it was the result of the union of an intelligent father and the mother who came from an aristocrat family.

He would often say, "She will be just