And I will forget her, yes. That which came together will fall apart slowly, but she will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgive her for forgetting me and the Colonel and nothing but herself and her mom in those last moments as she spent as a person.

Compromise is when you do what I tell you and I do what I want. ~Tiny Cooper

The consequences of being un-cool feel so big that a lot of times you end of not finding ways to have open and honest conversations.

I just want you to be happy. If that’s with me or with someone else or with nobody. I just want you to be happy.

We all want to do something to mitigate the pain of loss or to turn grief into something positive, to find a silver lining in the clouds. But I believe there is real value in just standing there, being still, being sad.

How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Straight & Fast.

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