If I can't serve as a role model, let me serve as a warning.
A moratorium on opportunities, please. I need to recover from the last one.
A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.
Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.
Habit keeps my life going, with occasional pushes from desire.
Old photograph: amid the set poses of her family, a young girl smiles and raises her hand a little.