I LOVE YOU, AMERICA. AND I'M SO, SO PROUD. -DAD

This was joy. This was love. So many words you hear about or read about and now...now I knew them.

Seni, resmin, melodilerin, kelimelerin ötesinde seviyorum.

He'd do anything for the people he loved, and I knew without question that I was the person he loved the most.

Thanks you," he wispered. "At least I can know for certain that, for one brief moment of our time together, you and I felt the same thing.

Anything you need, anything you want, say the words. I will do everything I can for you.

Happily ever after could be waiting in a field a mile wide. Or a window as narrow as seven minutes.

I still couldn't see any rhyme or reason to fighting through countless obstacles for love only to have it leave you powerless in the end.

It was a delicious feeling, falling in love.