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Lucy Devlin spots me high-fiving myself. So my awkwardness is still intact. Hooray.
“Things are good right here. Right now. Stop looking for a different kind of good.”
“You have this big, big heart, Brooke. Your heart’s so big that when it breaks, well, it breaks bigger than other people’s hearts.”
I take my half-full glass to the sink. Wait. No. It’s half empty. Optimism is for suckers.
Robert breaks his silence with a long, loud cackle. “Oh, Lenore!” He puts a hand to his chest and raises the other like he can’t contain the laughter. “Please pick MeeMaw. I beg you!” Lenore flares her nostrils. “Well, that would make you PeePaw.”
In less than a month, she’s shown me you can make big changes in your life. At any time. For any reason. And sure, change can be hard, but it can also put you on the path to exactly where you’re meant to be, right?
“That’s pretty much what I’ve been doing my whole life. Until I met you. Everything before that was just practice. But this is real now.”
The two of us need to have a conversation. Lots of them. But we don't have to figure out our whole future yet. Nobody can do that until the future comes. What’s important is that we’re honest with each other. That when things get hard, we have each other’s backs. You and me. I’m all in.”
can’t speak so I just squeeze his hand. It’s big and warm. Strong and sure. The hand of a man who works hard and cares harder. The hand I want in mine for the rest of my life.
Truth is, I was feeling wrecked myself that night. And Brooke thought she was broken too. We’d been sputtering along like a couple of cars in need of new parts. But we weren’t looking to be fixed.
