I guess what I'm trying to say is that you are there, in everything I am, in everything I've ever done, and looking back, I know that I should have told you know much you've always meant to me.

And when I came in with tears in my eyes, you always knew whether I needed you to hold me or just let me be. I don't know how you knew, but you did, and you made it easier for me.

At times, he even admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it.

Everyone has a past, but that's just it--it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it.

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

You are always here with me when I do so, at least in my heart, and it is impossible for me to remember a time when you were not a part of me. I do not know who I would have become had you never come back. I love you, Allie. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope and every dream I've ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, every day we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours. And, my darling, you will always be mine. Noah

The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy.