You should have seen your face," she said, her breath hot in my ear. "Sa-woooon.

This is what daughters did. They left, and came home later with lives of their own.

Love is so unpredictable. Sometimes you'll know a man for years and then one day, boom! Suddenly you see him in a different way. And other times, it's that first date, that first moment. That's what makes it so great.

You can't always get the perfect moment. Sometimes, you just have to do the best you can under the circumstances.

But those words were only the middle of the story. There was a beginning here, too.

"You ready to play?" Dave asked, bouncing it. "I don't know," I said. "Are you going to cheat?" "It's street ball!" He said checking it to me. "Show me that love." So chessy, i thought. But as i felt it, solid against my hands, i did feel something. I wasn't sure it was love. Maybe what remained of it, though, whatever that might be. "All right," I said. "Let's play."

Are those the only options? Nothing or forever?