Admittedly, there was a lot she still didn't know about him, but she did know this: He completed her in a way that she'd never thought possible. Knowledge isn't everything, she told herself, and she knew then that, in Nana's words, he was the toast to her butter.

Staring at the stars was like staring backward in time, since some stars are so far away that their light takes millions of years just to reach us. That we see stars not as they look now, but as they were when dinosaurs roamed the earth. The whole concept just struck me as…amazing somehow.

But you're disappointed." He brushed a strand of hair from her face. "It's not possible for you to disappoint me.

Each recognized the fact that real commitment could be proven only through the passage of time.

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

Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy, thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return. Thank you for the memories I will cherish forever. But most of all, thank you for showing me that there will come a time when I can eventually let you go.

I wish we didn't live so far apart... You're kind of addicting.