the other person was thinking. We needed to stop hiding our pain because we were afraid it would make us less desirable.
And we needed to understand that both of us had survived the previous year in different ways.
The woman in our honeymoon photographs no longer existed exactly as she once had.
Neither did the man standing beside her.
But the people underneath those changes were still us.
Still married.
Still frightened.
Still imperfect.
And still choosing each other.
For the first time in almost a year, Jeffrey didn’t
