BORROWED LOVE BY LOU PINEDA
When Lou Pineda was a little girl, a man who was not her father by blood, by law, or by any document that existed — walked her to school every morning.
He smoothed her hair at the gate. He saved money quietly so she could go to college. He never made a speech about it. He never asked for anything in return.
He simply chose her. Every day. Without being required to.
Borrowed Love is the story of what happens when the one person who loves you completely is taken too soon — and you spend the next forty years looking for that love in all the wrong places. It is the story of two marriages, four children, twenty years of being someone's secret, betrayal, debt, and the slow painful work of rebuilding.
It is also the story of a son who makes his mother breakfast without being asked.