Part 2
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
—Lao Tzu
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“You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.”
—Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper
Chapter 8
Two months had passed since Arliss and Sean became a couple. As Sean rode the “L” south to meet up with Arliss after his shift at Tricks, he could hardly believe their union had happened…and happened so fast. Sean had never been one to rush into things, but after the day they “made up” in his bedroom, he knew with a certainty that bordered on obsession that he never wanted to be apart from Arliss and would tolerate it only when things like work intruded.
The last couple of months had approached bliss. In his thirty-o
