It's a big deal when you finally get the chance to do the one thing you want to do - need to do - more than anything. It can kind of scare the crap out of you.

The thing is I'm a great believer in the perfect moment. They don't come around that often.

Yes, it sucked getting dumped. But wasn't it better to just be brutally honest? To admit that your feeling for someone is never going to be powerful enough to justify taking up any more of their time? I was doing him a favor, really. Freeing him up for a better opportunity. In fact, I was a practically a saint, if you really thought about it. Exactly.

After the group vet appointment--during which Lyle scratched the vet, the vet tech, and some poor woman minding her own business in the waiting room--we went back to Sabrina's and re-released the cats to their natural habitat.

Never would forever, with all its meanings, be so clear and distinct as in the true, guaranteed end of the world.

Maybe you could go backwards and forwards at the same time, but it wasn't easy. You had to want to.

When you don't know where you're going, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to have more than you need.