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Mary Eileen Singer crept from her grandmother’s house before the sun rose on her thirteenth birthday, just as the first pink rays danced over the lake. Even though it was August, the morning air was cool. The ground felt wet beneath her barefeet, which was just perfect.
She bent, ran her hands over the damp grass, then raised them to her face and scrubbed.
"Ah, there's something magic in that first dew. Back home they said if you washed your face in it you'd meet the man you'd someday wed. There's something magic about becoming a woman, too. You put those two wee bits of magic together and you have something special," her grandmother had said the night before.
Her grandmother had been right about so many things, that Mary Eileen fully expected to meet the man she’d one day marry today.
"When you’ve washed your face in the morning dew, you’ll see him and you’ll know," Grandma had promised.
Face duly washed, Mary Eileen hurriedly ate her breakfast and dressed carefully. It wouldn’t do to meet the man she was going to marry looking less than her best.
She went and sat out in front of the cottage on her favorite rock, waiting for him.
Waiting was no hardship. Her grandmother’s small cottage overlooked the lake. Not the well-tamed sandy beaches that line Lake Erie’s peninsula, Presque Isle, farther to the west, but a rocky, wild section of shoreline east of the city.
As she sat, she daydreamed about the man she would one day marry. He’d be tall and he’d smile a lot. He’d want nothing more than to spend all his time with her. He wouldn’t work long hours like her parents did and he’d...
Her daydream list of future husband do’s-and-don’ts were interrupted by a voice calling her name.
"Mary, Mary Eileen."
Panic swamped her as she recognized the voice.
What had she done?
This couldn’t be the magic.
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