Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable.

You have no idea how much the last few days have meant to me," I began. "Meeting you has been the best thing that's ever happened to me.

I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?

Without love of something I don't know if you can have a meaningful life at all.

There are memories for both of us, of course, but I've learned that memories can have a physical, almost living presence, and in this, Savannah and I are different as well.If hers are stars in the nighttime sky, mine are the haunted empty spaces in beetween.

You are staring at me like you were going to eat me up.

Single motherhood is a reality for a lot of women in my age group and the time difficulties in their lives are universal.