I Could Live Here Forever

by Hanna Halperin

Being saved from sadness and saving someone from sadness—these weren’t just things I yearned for out of the blue. It was something I’d been born into. I didn’t know how to separate the feeling of love from the feeling of wanting to escape.

Someone would show me a little love and I’d open my arms to them. I trusted it. I learned after a while, though, that there’s a lot of bad people out there. It didn’t make me less loving, but it made me pickier. At the end of the day, you have to decide what you want to accept in a relationship.”