The Girl with the Broken Paddle

If she had told him all the things she never will, he would put his hand under her chin, forcing her to look into his own bright brown eyes, and say, “You’re wrong. Love isn’t for the pretty, the perfect, or even just the sexy. It’s for the brave.”
And her lip would quiver, and though [...]

“Look,” she wants to tell him, “I understand. I see what you see. Every day. Every morning. Every night, as I wash away the day and check to make sure each speck of what will never happen again is really gone. I know I’m not beautiful.”
He would stop her. She knows he would. “You’re beautiful, [...]

She tried to shake him from her mind, but she couldn’t. Every moment that she was awake, the thoughts of him stabbed at her until she could no longer concentrate on anything else. 
“Goddamnit,” she muttered as she grabbed Buster’s leash. The snow on the Boston sidewalks below made them treacherous, but minding where she walked [...]

“Jeremy, I really don’t think it’s right…”
“We are not having this conversation.”
“No! Hear me out,” she said, her arms crossed, as she looked more past him than at him. When he didn’t offer any objections, she continued. “It hardly seems fair for you to punish me for things I did when we were separated.”
“You’re much [...]

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She must have been crazy, agreeing to meet him here like this. They had agreed again and again it was over, but with Jeremy, it was never over. 
She tried not to think about his blue eyes, the way [...]