All Your Firsts Without Me

by L.M. Terry

“David once told me that he looked at helping people as his way of sending ripples of goodness out into the world. He said helping one person could lead to helping hundreds, if not thousands.”

“All we own in this life are our memories.”

I am the preface. The beginning of a beautiful love story, but unfortunately my chapters are short and limited. But her love story is far from over, I know this, I feel it deep inside my heart.

Love doesn’t end with death. It continues to live in those goddamn pebbles, it never ends.

I feel like my entire life has been preparing me for this. I’m not even close to being worthy enough to worship at the temple of her body. But here I am, and I’m never letting her go.