We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has only happened once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it.

Or maybe watching you enjoy a carefree summer while you fell in love was what kept me out of the hospital in the first place.

I love autumn', Emily said to me. 'It wins you over with its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

.. Questions that had begun to creep into her thoughts whenever they we're together. When would he be ready? Would he ever be ready? And of course, why he wasn't ready?..

You really love her don't you,' she said.With all my heart.'She looked as sad as I'd ever seen her.What's your heart telling you to do?'I don't know.'Maybe', she said gently,'You're trying to hard to hear it.

And though she didn’t know it then, whenever her thoughts drifted back toward the past, she would always remember that this was how it all began.