Summer Romance

by Annabel Monaghan

You’d have to sit through a whole day of my life, right inside my head, to understand how that’s possible. I’m not sure I understand it myself.

Her parenting and gardening mottos are the same: “Pull the weeds and let God do the rest.”

“You can’t just keep doing what you’re doing and wait for it to turn into something happy. You kind of have to look for the happy things along the way.”

This is Ethan’s superpower, I think. His ability to meet people where they are and just hold the space for them to step into their best selves without any expectation of what that might be.

And now I can never unknow the truest true thing—the intensity of the love you feel will match the intensity of its loss.