It’s amazing really, the way we humans behave, the capacity we have to bring disaster to our lives the way I brought disaster to ours. It’s even more bewildering when you think that all any of us are really searching for is someone to stand beside, someone to look at and say yes, you make the difference, you bring me peace.

I think some people have a gene for love. They know what it is, giving it and receiving it in return just comes naturally to them. It seems I don’t have that chromosome because being loved by you was, I see now, all I ever wanted and for some reason I took it, and I broke it.

But I believe that love is strong, that love endures and if it does, then so does hope.