“We did not ask to be who we are, but we can choose how we live. I thought I did not have choices before. I thought my life was a tragedy. But you are here, and I am…” He closed his eyes, an expression like pain on his face contradicting the exquisite happiness she felt in his touch. “I am made anew. Come. I want to take you somewhere and tell you the moment I fell in love with you.”

