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There are moments in our lives that can shape us. Define us. Make us who we are. My entire childhood had been a series of naively extending trust only to have it broken. Time and time again.
“Hope and fear like to think they can occupy the same space, but there is only room for one.
“The point is, reward takes risk. Life is messy. People are messy. Nothing is ever going to be perfect, but oftentimes, it can be even better than perfect.”
I’d never seen the interaction of two people so weathered with age and experience and love.
“I wouldn’t have given him the bill if I didn’t completely adore what he was trying to do. Sometimes you need to let people help you.”
I wanted you to have someone in your corner. Everybody needs help sometimes. It doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with you.
I couldn’t stand by and watch you do this to yourself. I can’t watch everybody use you until there’s nothing left.
To have validation on something I’d pinned a lot of money and dreams on meant more to me than Tenisha could have possibly known
It was a feeling of being grateful for a person who saw the best in me and wanted the best for me. A man who provided an opportunity to make my dreams begin. It was humbling. To have someone give something without first taking.
Fear had ruled so much of my life. It was time to let hope have its day.
“For the longest time, I have only been able to trust myself. I had a lot of people in and out of my life, and it’s been difficult for me to trust people. I’m trying to be better, but it might be hard for me sometimes. You might have to be patient with me.”
Everything I thought I wanted had been taken away. Except, now I had a secret weapon on my side by way of a man who loved me for all my petty flaws and failures.
How many years had I lived in fear of the one thing I had hoped for more than anything else?
