“I met my wife freshman year of high school. I remember everything about that day—what she was wearing, the things she said, the way she smiled. Something told me, that very first day, that she was … special. One of a kind, built just for me.” He glances my way and then looks back to the small rock waterfall in front of us. “People thought we were crazy. Her daddy hated me for a long time, but we didn’t care. She was mine, and I was hers; nothing else mattered. We’d fight the world if we had to as long as, in the end, we had each other. And we did. Time and time again, we were tested, in many
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