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Because I might have other people, but no one in the whole universe—in every fucking universe—could ever replace you from my life.”
Every time they’re kicked down, they crawl to a stance and fight towards courage.
Guests fall quiet as an extended version of “Show Me Love” by Hundred Waters flows through the summer air.
I never want to forget that smile. Not for as long as I live. Bury me in the ground with these memories. Send me to the underworld with his face engrained in my head. I’d be a happy man.
“You’ve made me so goddamn proud to call you my son.”
“‘Love is born into every human being: it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.’—I never understood this quote until I met you. Until you filled the incomplete parts of me.”
“You’re the person that my soul has been searching for because my head was too stubborn to do it.”
“Well, I’ve been searching for you my entire life, and if someone told me that we’d been together before, in another time or place, I wouldn’t question them. I’ve longed for you before I even knew you, and now that I’ve found you, there’s not a single day I want to live without you.”
Dum spiro, spero. While I breathe, I hope.
Farrow’s hand is on the back of my neck. Mine on his, and we unite in a soul-bearing kiss. All around us is clapping and lightning and thunder.
And I’d like to think Plato was right. That in the beginning of time, it was Farrow and me, and we were once whole together. Our souls united. But like all humans, we were split down the middle. Separate halves wandering around this universe.
We found each other. And finally, together, we be...
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“Mostly because I should’ve just asked if I could give him a blowie like a fucking adult.”
“Dr. Hale.” Feels good to hear my last name.
I have a family. I have a family when I didn’t even think I’d fall in love. And we’re all together on a simple, beautiful day.
You know Ripley Keene Hale as the cute baby to me and Farrow, my bodyguard-turned-husband.
Fair Warning: if you fuck with our son, we’ll wipe you from the face of existence.
