If Only I Had Told Her

by Laura Nowlin

We weren’t touching, but it felt like the atoms between us were warm with my love for her.

I’m so, so grateful that Finn was once alive and that I got to love him. That he got to love and be loved. And be loved still.

And to be loved still.

I told them that they can stop writing and texting to ask for my forgiveness. They have it. I’ve learned that life and hearts are complicated.