Third Kiss

Accidents, as many people must learn the hard way, occasionally happen. Chuck learned that at the age of five when she spilled orange juice all over her first painting; she learned it again when her father's heart stopped in the side yard three years later; and she learned it still a third time when she dropped her room key into an icemaker on a Tahitian getaway cruise and was strangled to death with a plastic sack. She learned it once more, quite suddenly, when she and Ned sailed out of the back door of his pie shop that morning.