Always Yours

"Sometimes what you want is right in front of you. All you have to do is open your eyes and see it." – Meg Cabot


It was 87 steps from his porch to hers the summer they were seven. Paul knows because they counted…on the second day that the movers carried furniture into the tiny house and her mom said that it was okay if she played outside because she had a headache and she wanted to sleep.

They ate ice cream from the ice cream truck and caught a lizard that day and talked about how they didn't have daddies anymore and they counted the steps from his porch to hers.

It was 87 seven-year-old steps that day…but now it feels like more.