Kiss Her Once for Me

by Alison Cochrun

I like my men like I like my life goals: unattainable.

“I thought you said you had plans tonight.” “Yes,” I say. “Plans to cry.”

grabbed an armful of romance novels, and sat on the floor reading for an entire Sunday until I forgot the real world completely.

pretty people with freckles make me oh-so-stupid.

“I think marriage is just promising to love someone as long as you can for as best you can. I think relationships can be exactly what they’re supposed to be,” she says, eyes still on the snow, “even if they only last for one year, or five years, or even just for one day. The good parts of the time you spent with a person don’t go away simply because the relationship ends.”

“Some of us are born into families that deserve us and some of us have to spend our lives searching for them.