Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.

“That was the summer when everything we would become was hovering just over our …”

“They say it came from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it w…”

“But that was before she'd gotten that chest, before that slash of black hair ha…”

“It would have broken my heart if it hadn't been so damn familiar. I guess I'd g…”