Goodreads asked Cailin Briste:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Cailin Briste The plot of any romance author's books is about the mystery of love. When it strikes. Who falls. Will it last and become diamond-bright? I have engaged in this mystery for several decades with the man of my dreams since I was sixteen-years-old. As the songs says...

Ah! Sweet mystery of life
At last I've found thee
Ah! I know at last the secret of it all;
All the longing, seeking, striving, waiting, yearning

The burning hopes, the joy and idle tears that fall!
For 'tis love, and love alone, the world is seeking,
And 'tis love, and love alone, that can repay!
'Tis the answer, 'tis the end and all of living

For it is love alone that rules for aye!
Love, and love alone, the world is seeking,
For 'tis love, and love alone, that can repay!
'Tis the answer, 'tis the end and all of living
For it is love alone that rules for aye!

Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life (From "La fugue de Mariette)

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