I know I cannot undo this. None of us can undo what we’ve done, or relive a life already recorded.

It's always difficult to watch someone you love die.

There are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage... Your values must be alike. And the biggest one of those values, Mitch?" Yes? "Your belief in the importance of your marriage.

A wind blew, and the sand around his drawing scattered. He wrapped his fingers inside his wife's, and Father Time rekindled a connection he had only ever had with her. He surrendered to that sensation and felt the final drops of their lives touch one another, like water in a cave, top meets bottom, Heaven meets Earth. As their eyes closed, a different set of eyes opened, and they rose from the ground as a shared south, up and up, a sun and a moon in a single sky.

But a desperate heart will seduce the mind.

Sometimes, love brings you together even as life keeps you apart.

It’s not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It’s part of the deal we made.