"there is also a thing that happens in your youth where the world seems small and those things immediately around you are the most important and perhaps only things in the world. to want to be a part of those things so bad that you can see no other way, no other options. to want to die for those things. when you've found something that your convinced you can't live without. but the reality is we are people. survivors. we will learn to heal from life's obstacles. it may not be what we want, but we will adapt. move on. but this unremitting irrevocable fealty to another person isn't any less real because you're young."

-- edi gathegi