Yet it reminded me right then of a brief love affair, the kind you have when you are about to move from a familiar place to somewhere new, and you begin a romance with a built-in expiration. And when the time comes for the affair to end, you are sad but grateful because having had someone who understood you perfectly in that moment helps you to walk into the uncertain night and toward that unknown place with a clearer sense of who you are and where you’ve been, your heart filled with all that’s gone and with everything that you will never stop loving.
—Leah Carroll for the New York Times
