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"The first time Abigail Cohen met Daniel King, he was nursing a busted nose from an altercation with Billy Castro. He was a couple of years younger than her, about to head off to Vietnam, and hadn’t quite discovered the man he was meant to be.

 

Abigail was only on Galveston Island for the summer and was so boy crazy that she was blinded to Daniel’s feelings toward her. By the time she saw the error of her ways it seemed too late for a second chance. Daniel had outgrown Abigail and Galveston, and it didn’t seem likely that he’d come back to either one."