Expiration Dates

by Rebecca Serle

“To meet the right person, to be with someone I want to see in the morning and naked. To not be afraid to have a bad day around them. To be happy, I guess.”

It’s hard to hold on to people the older we get. Life looks different for everyone, and you have to keep choosing one another. You have to make a conscious effort to say, over and over again, “You.” Not everyone makes that choice. Not everyone can.

“Life is a catch-22,” Irina says. “That’s why God invented female friendship.”

“I used to dread the morning because it meant I had to rush out of the house. Then I realized even if I can’t make the day longer, I can make the morning earlier,”