“Taking the leap felt appropriate. Only it wasn’t just a short hop. It was a full plunge off a cliff.”

“And Grant Campbell was about to take a short walk off a high cliff.”

“He felt as if he stood at the very top of a high cliff. Take a step back and all was safe and familiar. But going forward required a singular leap of faith—and he was a man of little faith, particularly when it came to himself. But he wanted her to look at him again as if he were full of possibilities. As if they were full of possibilities.”

“And I felt a sudden whirl in my head, knowing this leap was inevitable, that I wasn't just standing on the cliff, toes poking over, but already in mid-air.”

“But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a cliff's edge, like Sappho into the sea.”

“Take the plunge. Jump in. Make friends and be vulnerable. Life is too short to alienate yourself.”