“Timing clicking together, finally, pieces falling into place.”

“And for one second, it was like I could feel the timing clicking together, finally pieces falling into place.”

“Just me and the future, finally together. Now there was a happy ending I could believe in.”

“At the same time, though, I was beginning to wonder if this was just how it was supposed to be for me, like perhaps I wasn't capable of having that many people in my life at any one time. My mom turned up, Nate walked away, one door opening as another clicked shut.”

“So many versions of just one memory, and yet none of them were right or wrong. Instead, they were all pieces. Only when fitted together, edge to edge, could they even begin to tell the whole story.”

“I felt tears prick my eyes as I looked down at the model again, looking at that girl and boy on the curb. Forever in that place, together.”

“I'd been through so much, falling short again and again, and only recently had found a place where who I was, right now, was enough.”