So there we were. Once upon a time, during the storybook version of dating we'd gone through, I'd pretended that it was possible to love her when I only mildly liked her. Now I had no desire to pretend we'd ever be in love, and I liked her madly.

'Can we try to be wise with each other for a very long time?' I asked her.

She laughed. 'You mean, can we share our fuckups and see if we can get any wisdom out of them?'

'Yeah,' I said. 'That would be nice.

Autor: David Levithan