
If I could tell that starry-eyed 15-year-old girl anything, it would be to cherish the boy beside her, because what awaits is the kind of love story fairytales are made of. I would assure her, “You two are going to have the most delicious life-the kind that exceeds your dreams-full of delight and heartache and devotion and joy and more love than you can begin to imagine now, on the front end. It will be a love that perseveres through all that life throws at it. Never diminished. Only deepened and made stronger through the years you’ll share. And on the inevitable day you have to tell him goodbye, the grief that follows will be a small price to pay for the privilege that will be yours to love and be loved by the best man you will ever know and the only boy you will ever love.”