But on the other hand, Lena had taught me that it’s also possible to love someone and lose them for no reason at all. To find a perfectly good person and wake up one morning to learn that they’re gone without a trace, either by force or by will. What if I did find someone, someone good, and he was taken from me, too? Wouldn’t it just be easier to go through life alone? So that’s what I had done, for years. I had been alone.
