June First

by Jennifer Hartmann

top of her dress. It’s honestly not a better thing to

“You still have you. And you matter, too. You matter a whole hell of a lot, okay?”

“I’m terrified of ruining you for the poor bastard who has the unfortunate burden of loving you after me, that when you finally let him kiss you all he’ll taste is my ashes. When he brings you to his bed, it’s my name you’ll scream. And that’s not fair. You deserve so much more than to live your life in the shadow of this…curse

Strength, by definition, is overcoming that hard thing…but what happens when every avenue is equally, painfully hard?

I’m lucky to have something so good in my life washing away all the bad.

A moment that confirms that we were never wrong. Our love story was never wrong.

We were simply waiting for the timing to be right.