Fine...a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.

Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes … blotting out the future.

During this time we've been apart, it's you I've thought of when I'm at my weakest, and you who have pulled me through.

All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves out and fill the space she'd left behind.

I waited. Because with Eli, he was never trying to get you to finish for him. He always knew where he was going, even if it took a little while to get there.

It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.

After everything that happened, how could I miss him? But I did, I did.