Matchmaking for Beginners

by Maddie Dawson

‘Whatever happens, love that.’”

You have a big life coming. A big, gigantic heart song of a life.

Maybe, it occurs to me, this is what marriage ultimately turns into: you have to tough it out through the bad times so that you can get to these pinnacle moments when life has just handed you a shiny star.

We’re not so different after all, he and I. The walking wounded, coming home to heal.

take a deep, deep breath—breathing in the city around me, all its sounds and voices, and the car horns and the laughter and uncertainty of life on planet Earth. And then a voice says to me, There is nothing more important than this.

You and I are messy, forgiving, rambunctious people,

WHATEVER HAPPENS, LOVE THAT.