Even then, it hurt. The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like I was waking up from the pain when something in the world outside of me suddenly required my comment or attention.

“Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager.""Right,…”

“Once you think a thought, it is extremely difficult to unthink it. And I had th…”

“I dont think you can ever fill the empty space with the thing you lost...I don'…”

“I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will …”