list the major events of the story in a sequence
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'Til the Sun Melted Into the Stars
As Stella pulled up to the old, abandoned house, she felt her heartbeat heavy in her chest. The parents she never knew lived out the entirety of their lives here. There was a glass-fronted solarium to the right where she imagined they sat and played cards every evening. At the thought of that, her mind drifted back to her own childhood.
There were no glass solariums in her house growing up. No, indeed. She and five other children were perpetually crammed into three bunk beds in her foster parents' home. Every night, they didn't play cards. They pushed through a long list of chores that needed to be completed before the parents arrived home from work at seven. If they weren't, everyone knew to scatter and hide.
Life continued in this perpetual maze of chores and fear until Stella hit her 18th birthday. She immediately took a job as a waitress and found a room for rent in town. When she wasn't waitressing, she was writing. Eventually, the magazine Writers' Haven picked up one of her stories, allowing life to shift in yet another direction. This time, the shift brought wonderful change.
With the heat following her submission to Writers' Haven, she felt brave enough to start the hunt for an agent. In the ultimate act of fate, one of her query letters fell upon Nora Robb's desk. A few months later, her debut novel, A Life Without Love, hit the scene with a bang. Stella had stories upon stories piled up in her tiny room in town. One bestseller after another bestseller afforded Stella the opportunity to relax in a first class seat aboard Delta Airlines and drive out to San Diego to figure out why her birth parents never loved her.
Turns out, the address her investigator gave her led to the old abandoned house she stood before now. The house was empty, her parents were gone, and her soul remained hollow. Why did they send her away? Why did they never come and find her? As she stood on the broken sidewalk, staring up at the soot-covered exterior, she thought it might be time to accept her life as it is.
Sure, she didn't grow up playing gin rummy on a Friday night under the stars. But, she stood beside the ocean today. And, come tomorrow, she could go anywhere and do anything. Perhaps that was enough. As she turned from the decaying ruins of her parents' life, she decided not to look back but, rather, hop on her little red Vespa and drive up the coastal rode 'til the sun melted into the stars.