We were encouraged to propose safetyprevention suggestions, and write them all down— locking doors, walking or exercising with a friend, wearing shoes that don’t hinder running. Erin’s suggestion of “Avoid assholes” was popular.

Love is not the absence of logic but logic examined and recalculated heated and curved to fit inside the contours of the heart.

I belong to you. There is no one else. All I want is to be where you are.

But I'll say this, if what looks like the facts of the matter are conflicting with your feelings, then you need more information before deciding

There are a million ways to lose someone you love.

I wanted to tell you that I just--I miss you. And maybe that sounds ridiculous--like we barely know each other, but between the emails and texts and... everything else, I felt like we did. Like we do. and I miss--I don't know how else to say it--I miss both of you.

Time would not change what I was feeling--or not feeling. I'd had time, and though the ache from his desertion hadn't disappeared, it was decreasing. My future was blurry, yes, but I was beginning to imagine a future when I would no longer miss him at all.