Our Date Was Going Well—Until the Police Suddenly Appeared

not once, not even in the early weeks when it would have been the easiest thing in the world to do.

And me? I learned something out of all of this too, something I don’t think I would have learned any other way.

People aren’t their worst moments. They’re how they fight back afterward. How they heal, slowly, on their own timeline. How they still choose continue reading …