Whether it was a song, a person, or a story, there was a lot you couldn’t know from just an excerpt, a glance, or part of a chorus.

And the rest is history,' I said. Nah.' He shook his head. 'The rest is now.

I've always written in first person. It gives the readers more insight.

I wondered if he ever thought of me, and hated the pang I felt when I told myself he didn't.

I watched my mother do what she did best, and realized there would never be a way to cut myself from her entirely. No matter how strong or weak I was, she was a part of me, as crucial as my own heart. I would never be strong enough, in all my life, to do without her.

Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.

It's harder that in looks," I told him when I finally got back in the car. "Most things are.