He Poured Beer Down My Jacket And Demanded My Call Sign Until He Realized Who I Really Was

in a way that was going to eventually make her excellent. She had been crying long enough that her eyes were swollen nearly shut, and the first thing she did when she saw me was apologize.

That was the part I could never put down afterward. Not the tears, which were appropriate and human and deserved. The apology. The reflexive, automatic reflex to continue reading …