Come Closer

by Sara Gran

Here was stability, here was something I could rely on, my rock, day in and day out. Someone who loved me, who would never leave me alone.

We could devote our lives to making sense of the odd, the inexplicable, the coincidental, but most of us don’t.

WE COULD DEVOTE our lives to making sense of the odd, the inexplicable, the coincidental. But most of us don’t, and I didn’t either.

Ed didn’t believe that just because something was alive, that meant you had to love it.

“I never made you do anything,” she said. “I only let you do what you wanted. I told you, Amanda, I can’t have fun without you.”

You can’t spend your whole life saying No.

Sometimes you have to say Yes, and see where it takes you.