Write Me for You

by Tillie Cole

“Love,” my mama said, “is the most powerful thing in the world. It can heal and it can grow in the most unlikely of places. When all is lost, love blooms.”

“I want a love like my mama and daddy. Please, Moon, when I’m old enough, send me someone to love.”

is fact.” June tilted her head. “I will choose you every time, in every universe. I choose you for me completely.”

didn’t want anything unsaid. “Junebug, if anything happens to me, I want you to look at the palm of your hand, the one that holds my heart, and know that I loved you more than anyone has ever loved before.”

“You have been the biggest blessing in my entire life, Junebug. Not football, not anything…but you. I just want you to know that. If all we ever get is a few more weeks at this ranch, then it will be a life well lived.”

“You have become my life,” she said. “And for however long we have left, that will never change.”