Let's Pretend This Will Work

by Maddie Dawson

And she says, “I love you, Mimi Mommy!” and stretches out her arms. I tell you, it’s almost more than I can bear. But I say, “I love you, too, Alice Dumpling!”

But can we move on, do you think? Can you overlook things? Start over with the life you were meant to have?” “I don’t know. Maybe too much time has passed, and we went too far in different directions.”

“Everything can change for the better in one instant.”

“I want to know if you think I could ever be the ocean, too. Like if maybe there’s more than one ocean in one lifetime, you know? You don’t have to answer now, but I was thinking that maybe she was the Atlantic, and I could be the Pacific. Someday. Maybe.”

The truth, as told by La Starla, is that the path you’re on may simply be a little detour that leads you to the real path you’re supposed to be on, where all your happiness is hanging out, waiting for you.

concentrate on magic and the universe and the incredible miracles that wait for us around every corner if we just have the sense to look for them and pay attention.

Love doesn’t always have to look like two hearts melting together as one.