title: Young Hearts Crying (Vintage Contemporaries)
author:  Richard Yates 
description: &#8220;To me and to many other writers of my generation, the work of Richard Yates came as a liberating force. . . . He was one of the most important writers of the second half of the century.&#8221;&#8212;Robert Stone
zlib_text: The Jock
   
   
   
  BY JAID BLACK
   
  Writing as
   
  JASMINE LEVEAUX
   
   
  
   
  Copyright © 2001 by Jasmine LeVeaux.
  Republished Copyright © 2019 by Jaid Black w/a Jasmine LeVeaux.
  All rights reserved.
  No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by
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  prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical
  reviews and certain other non-commercial uses permitted by copyright law.
  Publisher: Valentina Antonia, LLC.
  
   
  Prologue
  Tampa Florida, eleven years earlier
   
  Her heart was breaking.
  Gwenyth Jones had been in love with Sam Tremont for as long as she could remember. And
  now he was getting married.
  At the tender age of five, little Gwen’s heart had been lassoed and claimed by her elder
  brother Harry’s best boyhood friend, the then nine-year-old Sam. A double-decker scoop of
  strawberry and banana flavored ice cr