I know we loved each other, but distance can do strange things to people and before I was willing to tell you about it, I wanted to be certain that it would last

We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken us a lifetime to learn...for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together...this is the great paradox.

and all I could think was that I would like to spend every morning for the rest of my life waking up beside her

It's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief . . . lessens. It may not go away completely, but after a while it's not so overwhelming.

That he would love her no matter what she told him, and that he was the kind of man who loved her already and would love her forever.

Hardships drive some people apart. Others, like us, grow even closer.

Life, I've learned, is never fair. If they teach anything in schools, that should be it.