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

You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.

I realized how truly hard it was, really, to see someone you love change right before your eyes. Not only is it scary, it throws your balance off as well.

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

Wherever you will go, I will let you down, But this lullaby goes on.

You can't just turn your heart off like a faucet; you have to go to the source and dry it out, drop by drop.

There was no way to take the story back, folding it neatly into the place I'd kept it all this time. No matter what else happened, from here on out, I would always remember Wes, because with this telling, he'd become part of that story, of my story, too.