“Rooney, I have wanted you since the moment I met you. Since you were screaming in the stands at Willa’s first game and she scored and you smiled while you cried. Your hair was half out of its braid, and your eyes were red-rimmed, and you were screaming with joy. You were so fucking beautiful and alive, and I felt like I’d been clubbed over the head. You scared the hell out of me, how much you…felt, how much you said and expressed, so freely. I had no idea what to do with you, except want you. Helplessly. And for a good long while, I thought, hopelessly. So I tried to do everything I could to
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