Before We Were Strangers

by Renee Carlino

“I just wish passion was enough.”

You chase it like the first high for the rest of your life. It doesn’t mean you can’t love another or move on; it just means that the one spontaneous moment, the split second that you took the leap, when your heart was racing and your mind was muddled with What ifs?—that moment—will never happen the same way again. It will never feel as intense as the first time.

Like nothing else in life, sex is perfectly selfless and selfish all