Petra Shines On

She has gone back many times to Thailand, to the place of her torment, and seen that nothing is the same. The hotel was rebuilt. She can't find the tree she'd clung to. "The landscape seems all new." And isn't her landscape all new too? Six months before that wave hit, Simon made Petra a book of all the things he loved about her. After he died, she and it were inseparable. Not anymore. She put it in a safe. "I have to move on," she whispers.

She knows that, sometimes, letting go is what saves you.