It was as familiar to me as a song I'd been hearing my whole life, covered by various people but the basic tune the same.

It was like those songs I'd heard as a child, each so familiar, and all mine. When i got older and realized the words were sad, the stories tragic, it didn't make me love them any less. By then they were already part of me, woven into my conciousness & memory

...You can't unlearn something, even if you want to. You know what you know.

We laughed ourselves silly, taking back our shared past, gently, piece by piece.

I was actually kind of a hot mess in high school. I did a lot of things in high school I'm not proud of. I wasn't a good student and I wasn't particularly a good daughter. I wasn't very engaged.

It's a choice, Annabel. And if you make the wrong one, you have only yourself to blame when there are consequences.

With love like that, you can't get pick about how it finds you or the details. All that matters is that it's there. Better late than never.