The world spins. It never stops moving. Taking twenty-four hours, a day, to rotate a full three hundred and sixty degrees, three hundred and sixty-five times it does this to create a single year. Thats eight thousand, seven hundred and sixty hours or five hundred and twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes or thirty-one million, five hundred and thirty-six thousand seconds. One year.

Lots of things are possible to accomplish in one year. Learn another language, get an education, finding that perfect job, writing a book., winning the lottery or becoming famous. A great number of things can be achieved.

You want to know what I did?

I found love.

But lets start from the beginning, shall we.

My name is Arizona. Arizona Robbins. I wan born on January eighth, nineteen eight-six. I am now twenty-seven years of age. I hail from Mascoutah, Illinois, it's a small town. I've been here my whole life. It's where my family is, my friends. Especially my best friend, Maura Isles. She's a year older than myself, being born in the year of nineteen eight-five. We've known each other for twenty-four years. She's my go to person. She was the first person I came out to. Oh yeah, I'm a lesbian by the way. Anyway, she was supportive, didn't judge me just because I like the same sex. This all came to light when I was in high school, just fifteen years old when I figured it out.

It took me a ages to tell Maura. I was so scared of how she'd react. My first thought was that she'd be disgusted with me, that she would turn her back on our friendship and never speak to me again. But that's the complete opposite of what happened. She was more supportive than ever when I told her. It was two weeks after my seventeenth birthday, we'd been walking though the park after soccer, on our way to the horse ranch where we helped out, to earn a little money, when it happened.

I hadn't meant to tell her. It just sort of came out. I was thinking of my brother, Timothy. Sergeant Timothy Robbins of the Marine Corps, I love and admire my brother, he's my other person, I tell him everything to, just not this. Not with how my father is, he really would turn his back on me.

So, the next thing I know, I was interrupting Mauras babble about math and telling her I was gay, that I was into girls. All she did was look at me and say "Well, it sure took you long enough." and then continued on talking about math. I was dazed and confused but later she then told me how it had been obvious, especially these last few months.

We'd had a new girl join our school soccer team. She was in Mauras year, so I only knew her from soccer. She's Canadian, from Toronto, I think. Her name is Bo Dennis.