We’d met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world.

“in all the years we spend together, I never once regretted the fact that I had …”

“All they told me was that he was forty-two when he died. I just wanted...to fin…”

“Always stick to the story. It was when you started backtracking that people got…”

“It was, I remembered thinking, the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make.…”