Practicing physicians were the Arbors. Beloved by the community of Casper Cove. Their children followed suit of being in the medical profession.  Della the eldest became a doctor, Danny the middle child dabbled in and out of med school but hadn't quite decided on life at age 22. Then there was their nurse, Dusty; the kindest gentlest of souls.
      And he married the wayward girl!

Serena got a job at the local grocery mart as a checkout girl. The attempt to fit into the community was there, but the community wasn't there for her.

Everywhere she turned there would be paparazzi questioning her time at Riddle Ramch and if not that then the mystery murderer who took the lives of most of her work mates a couple years back.

"Why did you survive?
     What makes you special??
       Were you involved???"

Even with the book coming out written from the main protagonist, it still never answered the questions of Serena O'Hara.

The Arbors had such a distaste of her that they shed no sympathy.
It was all Dusty all the time, flourishing Serena with love and care. He took on the twins as though they were his own.

The day of adoption was slightly more accepting of Serena, as she allowed the Arbors to adore her twins as the next heirs to the Arbor family lineage.
Shawn & Silver Arbor.

The first grandchild of the Arbors, a celebration was had in the town. A saving of the children, as it said on the posters plastered around Casper Cove.
Serena was forced to hand out the flyer of same when she bagged groceries for the local folk. People would thank her for doing the right thing for the poor children.

"Dusty, I feel so disgusted by everything & everyone in this god forsaken place!
They are truly horrible unforgivable people Serena. I know it's hard, but fuck them! They don't matter and neither does my family, they're all just a bunch of ignorant privileged pricks!

Our babies Dusty, I don't want them to be mistreated because of what people think of me or who I used to be or what I was involved in.

My love, you got caught up in a serial killers dream.
A messed up self proclaimed profit mind fucked your fragile soul, right after you escaped a crow bar killer!! I mean people are fucked not to see how absolutely vulnerable you were.

I love you Serena, more than anything I've ever desired before!
Dusty, you're my world and I deeply trust your love in me."

Serena was determined to make a life out of the tragedy that her so called existence was. This home, this man and her children.

The light from emerging spring captured the frames of Dusty holding his beautiful daughter.

Serena once again captured this pristine moment with the light shining on Silver, her glow radiant and her future seemed to be determined fruitful.

Another picture in the keepsake.