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

When you chase a dream, you learn about yourself. You learn your capabilities and limitations, and the value of hard work and persistence.

I want to wake up with you beside me in the mornings. I want to spend my evenings looking at you across the dinner table. I want to share every mundane detail of my day with you and hear every detail of yours. I want to laugh with you and fall asleep with you in my arms.

Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are there cannot be one without the other yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel I remember wondering to be always together yet forever apart?

Because in the end, and no matter how hard it is, acceptance helps people move on with the rest of their lives.

Who did she know in Raleigh who took the time off to fix a house? Or read Whitman or Eliot, finding images in the mind, thoughts of the spirit? Or hunted dawn from the bow of a canoe? These weren't the things that drove society, but she felt they shouldn't be treated as unimportant. They made living worthwhile.

If hers are the stars in the nighttime sky, mine are the haunted empty spaces in between.