Jason is quiet for a minute. “It wasn’t any one thing. It felt…inevitable. From the very beginning. He was…unlike anyone else I’d ever known. All I wanted was to spend time with him. To know him better. He made me feel strong because I never doubted what I meant to him. I fell in love like the changing of the seasons. Slowly and inescapably. And I knew it because…because I didn’t want to look forward into a future that didn’t have him.”

