EPILOGUE

Bliss, a year later their lives were still filled with it.

Bliss’s appearance in the Christmas issue of Livingston Catalogue might have given Claire, Brooke, and Lorraine a wider audience, but it was the fabulous products and savvy marketing of the three owners that kept their profits rising. But who could argue with the walking advertisement of the three happily married owners. That two of them had found their husbands as a direct result of Bliss had other women anxious to find their own man and do their own test marketing.

The three pictures on Bliss’s Web site certainly attested that the owners’ husbands enjoyed being guinea pigs. Gray and Claire, who was six months pregnant and ecstatically happy and healthy, were captured strolling on the beach in back of their home on Sullivan Island. John, Brooke, and their two children, Amy and Mark, posed for their shot after Mark’s team won the Y’s district softball championship. Hamilton and Lorraine’s picture was taken in their garden with her holding a rose he had just given her.

Just like the first time, like every time love found a way.