I allow myself, for the first time in ten years, to feel every emotion coursing through my body, to relive the perfect moment from the perfect night all those years ago, the moment I knew I’d well and truly given my heart away to the girl in my passenger seat. I realize now that I’ve never had it back. I’ve been wandering the earth with a hollow chest all this time. I know that my heart—my soul—has been sitting right here, in the palm of her hand. Blood spreads through my veins again for the first time. It feels like life is being breathed back into me as I watch the sunset over the red rock
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