Everything in my life has been leading up to this," he whispered. "Everything that's happened, everything I've done has been worth it because it's brought me here.

Marriage equality is coming, and not merely to a theater near you.

I know the M-word makes you nervous, but yeah. I'm talking about the big, permanent friendship. A little different from what Joe and Charles had, though. See, I want to be the kind of best friends who make love every night, who share all their darkest secrets and favorite jokes, and maybe even someday make babies together. I know that kind of friendship requires hard work, but you know, I'm pretty good at hard work. ~ Tom Paoletti, "The Unsung Hero

He wanted to wake up to her smile every day for the rest of his life, like some stupid coffee commercial on TV.

Life. Unfair and painful at times. But always moving forward, always shifting,changing, with times relentless passage smoothing down jagged parts until it no longer hurts quite so much to breathe.

Two Navy SEALs versus one angry seven-month-old," he mused, "The odds could go either way.

Forget about writing to Penthouse. This one was going to be a story for their grandkids.