“Her body begs to be taken away and put into a warm bed with the sheets pulled high, even though nothing can help now.”

“and I'm thinking as our bodies meet that I'll remember this forever, and i just hope it's for all the right reasons.”

“I'm drinking away the exam results that don't take me anywhere.”

“I rush to her side and touch her cold skin, hoping against hope for a pulse.”

“After the war I was going to make up for lost time. But the time I spent away, it's still lost. No matter what I do, it stays lost.”

“She didn't have an answer for that. People like her only ever have questions.”

“And I feel like a real Dad when I read to her at night. She won't sleep without one story, at least.”