I didn’t realize I’d been holding my breath all along until my knees nearly gave out.

Yes.

I said yes,

The words had already been said out before I could second-guess them, before the fear, the old shadows, the memory of being left behind could crawl back in and take the moment from me.

I didn't know when I said it but I felt okay after I said it.

And now here I was, standing in the middle of a garden I knew like the back of my hand, holding the hand of the man I used to only ...