If Only I Had Told Her

by Laura Nowlin

“When you’re reading a book and you can’t focus, ask yourself, ‘How much is the writer’s fault, and how much is mine?’

could pick out her laugh in a crowded hallway.

Her devotion to her writing is beautiful, like the rest of her.

She is as extraordinary as she is beautiful.

I’m playing this song for her.

then it means she knows. It means she’s always known, always understood how I feel about her.

“I love you,” I tell Autumn, saying it for all the times I couldn’t before and all the times I may never be able to again.

If only I’d told her that I loved her years ago, I wouldn’t be here now. Because she loved me. She loved me this whole time.

“Whatever our souls are made of, hers and mine are the same.”

It’s all done. Finn’s story is over. His whole life.

thought you should know that he was really, really happy.”

That he got to love and be loved. And be loved still.