This madness had lain dormant inside me for years, not ’cause I hadn’t met the person I was born to love but ’cause I had, and we just hadn’t been ready to go there. So, for eight years I’d been in this holdin’ pattern, livin’ but not for myself, goin’ through the motions. And it was only when Mei arrived back on my doorstep that I woke up again.

