Kelly Rimmer

One of the many, many things that completely baffle me about women is what you’ll put yourselves through for rules that only women care about.

hindsight, knowing Lilah, it was probably a ploy to test my interest level, rather than an actual hesitation.

That’s how we made eye contact. And that’s when I fell in love with her—so maybe it was actually love at second sight.

Her laugh was delicate and musical—exactly the sound you’d think a woman as beautiful as Lilah should make when she laughed.

She flashed me a smile and my cliché of a stomach did a flip-flop

It was absolutely not love at first sight.

‘My eyes are up here,’ she said,

And that’s when I fell in love with her—so maybe it was actually love at second sight.

fully animated—gesturing wildly

Home is not the country we stand in—it’s us. Home is the future we have been planning and dreaming of. We can build it anywhere. And yes, you are a tiny waif of a thing