I’d argue that your second love is just as important, because it’s the love that reminds you that the world didn’t end with the first. That what was broken can be made new and that our capacity for love is endless. In some ways, the second can shine even brighter than the first, because it brings that part of you back to life. One shapes you and breaks you and one remakes you. I fell in love with them thirty-five million heartbeats apart and an ocean away.

