EVERLASTING LOVE

Hanging out at my friend’s ranch, I couldn’t stop admiring the man sitting opposite me.

Scott was three years older than me, and we were in college together in Oklahoma.

Hanging out at parties and fishing with our friends, we got to know each other fairly well.

However, we had a strictly platonic relationship.

Then, after finishing college in 2003, I soon moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to pursue my dreams of teaching.

I didn’t hear from Scott again, but in 2017, he popped up on Facebook.

Hi there, he wrote.

If I’m honest, I was a little shocked to hear from him!

However, we soon started chatting back and forth, and agreed to meet up when I went back home for Christmas.

After 14 years, I couldn’t