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“She used to say, What comes easy won’t last long, and what lasts long won’t come easy.” Luca smiled sadly. “Your mom was a smart woman.”
We once had to postpone an album cover photo shoot because Styx, our drummer, got his tongue stuck to a stripper’s muff.” She squinted at me and shook her head, seemingly coming out of her fog. “Did you just say he got his tongue stuck to a . . . ?” I nodded. “Muff. Her pussy.” Luca looked rightfully confused. “Dumbass has a tongue ring. He went down on a stripper who had a clitoris ring, and the two somehow got connected, and they couldn’t disconnect them. He didn’t show up for the shoot and wasn’t answering his phone. So I went over to his place and pounded on the door. I figured he’d gotten
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She looked down again. This time for a solid minute before looking back up at me. A fat tear rolled down her cheek. “Sometimes when love isn’t enough to make things right, we need to let it go.” I looked back and forth between her eyes. “Are you finished?” She looked confused but nodded. “Fine. Then it’s my turn to speak.” “Okay . . .” “I only have one thing to say, but I want to make sure you hear it loud and clear, Luca.” She looked at me and waited. I leaned in close so that our noses were touching and spoke directly into her eyes with one stern word. “No.” Apparently she thought I had more
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HAHAHA! I am FULLY in love with Griffin. I LOVE that he refuses to give up on her. Feels like I don’t read about heroes like this enough
“When you’re ready to discuss how we’re going to make things work, I’ll be ready to have that conversation. But I’m done having this one, and I want to go home. I’m tired and I want to go home.” I started to walk back to my side of the car and then realized she might have gotten a mixed message from my last sentence. So I walked back to where she still stood at the back of the car and cleared that shit up. “So there’s no confusion, when I say ‘home’—I don’t mean my house in California. Because that isn’t where home is anymore, Luca. Home is wherever you are.”
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“We all have light and dark inside us, love. We try to hide the darkness from others because we’re afraid it will scare them away. But your dark doesn’t scare me, Luca. It only makes me want to hold your hand and be your light until you can find your own again. That’s what people do when they’re in love. I won’t always be able to give you your light back, because sometimes you need to find that within yourself, but I’ll stand by your side and hold your hand in the dark so things aren’t so scary.”
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His eyes looked tired when he said, “Nothing is up in the air from my point of view. I’ve got a lot of fight in me, Luca. I’m here for the long haul if you want me to be. But in the end, regardless of what I might have said about not letting you leave me, I can’t force you to do anything. That’s the one thing I can’t do.” He wiped a tear from my cheek. “It will never be perfect. It will never not be scary. So if you’re waiting for this to not feel terrifying, it never will. There will be hard times. But there will be amazing ones, too. You have to decide whether we’re worth the hardships. In
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Rolling his suitcase, he started walking toward the door when he stopped and turned around to face me. “In case I wasn’t clear, love is enough for me, Luca. But you have to let me love you.”
Luca: What do tofu and a dildo have in common? He responded two seconds later. Griffin: What? Luca: They’re both meat substitutes. Griffin: LOL. What do you call a twenty-five-year-old rock star who doesn’t masturbate when he hasn’t seen his girl for two full weeks? Luca: What? Griffin: A liar. I laughed out loud again. Luca: What do you call a truck full of dildos? Griffin: What? Luca: Toys for Twats. Griffin: Okay, that one just made me spit water through my nose.
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“I’ve never witnessed anyone work harder to save a relationship, Griffin. You did everything you could. Luca is just not ready, as much as she wishes she could be—as much as I know she truly loves you.” “I know she loves me . . . as much as she could love anyone. That’s why it hurts to have to accept this. I’m hurting not only for myself but because I somehow know she’s hurting even more. I know this wasn’t easy for her . . . to let me go.”
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Even though you’ve left scars . . . You’re still my sun, moon, and stars. What? I didn’t hear anything else once he’d sung those words. My sun, moon, and stars. The rest of the song was a blur as I sat there frozen, so overcome with emotion. I’d never once mentioned the sun, moon, and stars tattoo to Griffin. He couldn’t have known anything, and yet those words were somehow in his heart. I was pretty sure it was because on some level, he lived inside mine. Looking down at my tattoo, I knew beyond the shadow of a doubt that this was Izzy sending me the ultimate message of all.
Whoa. I love the symbolism that’s popping up in this story ❤️
“Dear Griffin, “For eight years, I’ve been afraid of the dark. “For eight years, I’ve been afraid of letting go. “For eight years, I’ve been afraid of being trapped. “For eight years, I’ve been afraid of fire. “For eight years, I’ve been afraid of trying. “Your love made me realize I wasn’t really ever afraid of the dark, I was afraid of what lurked inside the darkness. “I wasn’t afraid of letting go, I was afraid to accept what was already gone. “I wasn’t afraid of being trapped, I was afraid to be free. “I wasn’t afraid of fire, I was afraid to be burned. “I wasn’t afraid of trying, I was
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Griffin’s eyes went back and forth between mine. “What do you call a twenty-five-year-old British rock star who meets the girl of his dreams through a letter in second grade and drives to her house after she dumps him?” I laughed. “I don’t know. Impetuous?” Griff took both my cheeks into his hands. “Home. You call him finally home.”
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“How are you doing?” I asked as we approached the grocery store from the parking lot. She blew out a breath. “Anxious. But even if I poop my pants, I’m not running away.” “If you poop your pants, love, I’ll be the one running away.” I winked.
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We came upon the watermelons. “What was that trick, babe? Show me again how you pick the best one.” I didn’t really want to know, but it was a good way to get her mind off her nerves. She lifted one of them and demonstrated. “You have to hold it up to your ear and tap it with your finger. If it’s hollow, it’s perfect.” I pulled her toward me and nestled my head in her neck, taking in a long whiff of her scent. My cheek landed on her chest, and I could feel her heart beating against me. Then I tapped gently on her breast and placed my ear on her heart. She laughed. “What are you doing?” “Yup.
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Hahaha, that is both perfect and hilarious
The two men who I would have wanted to walk me down the aisle—my father and Doc—were both gone. So Griffin would be doing the honors.
Awwww!! That’s so sweet!
When he turned around and got a look at me, he immediately started crying. I’d rarely seen Griffin cry—not happy tears, at least. But there was certainly no bigger proof of his love for me than to witness them falling from his eyes right now. “You look even more beautiful than I could have ever imagined.”
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“Speaking of your first letter, I recently went through all my boxes and came across it. I’m holding it in my pocket today as my own ‘something old.’” “Really?” He reached inside and took it out before unfolding it. Shock crossed his face. “My God.” “What?” “I never noticed this. Look at the date, Luca. Holy shit. Look at the date!” It was today’s date—exactly twenty years ago. My mouth hung open. “We’re getting married two decades to the day of the very first time I ever wrote you.”
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P.S. Mrs. Ryan showed me a list of kids, and I picked your name, Griffin Quinn. I don’t know why. Maybe because my mom watches that show Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. But you stuck out. It was just a feeling I had that you were it—my pen pal. My dad always says to trust your gut. My gut loves black licorice. And my gut tells me we’re going to be friends, Griffin. I really hope you write back.
Oh gosh. I’m crying. I don’t want this to be the end 😭😭😭
