All you needed is what every girl needs, a good friend. Someone to talk to, to share with, to run things by.

The wedding vows are a license to be a complete jerk, with full knowledge that the person you married has agreed, no matter how large a horse's ass you are, to stay by your side until death. A fool could tell you this is a bad deal.

Love has a funny way of showing up when you aren't looking for it and didn't plan on it.

All you needed is what every girl needs, a good friend. Someone to talk to, to share with, to run things by.

The intimacy. The deepest level of love. The knowledge that someone understands you, is rooting for you, is sharing your life.

But a child's joy is doubled for the mother, and the sound of her son's laughter began to her heart, a feat she had never believed possible

I have been a joy to live with all spring: Upbeat, warm and tender, uncomplicated, and loving. I am no trouble at all. You could press me into dough and make sugar cookies out of me, I've been so sweet.