"This has been an aching cavern in my chest for eighteen months, as he slowly drifted away with the first throes of his first committed relationship, and a life in the city that didn t include me. I ve been losing him slowly and surely, and it s contributed in part to why I started dating so many men. I was trying to find someone for me, someone that would care about me as much as he always did. I want someone to make me feel the way he does when he s around: safe, loved, and secure. Like I m home."
" That s not true. Arrick makes to pull me back to him, but I step further away. Slapping his hands away childishly. Immature me peeking out to show face."
" Can you name one time in the last year, or more, that you called me to just talk or to hang out; one time that you have been n
