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“I froze, then I asked, “You mean…?”

“Yes, baby,” Poppy replied. “You’ve come home. You’ve come home to me.”

A huge smile spread across my lips, and a flood of pure happiness washed over me. Unable to resist, I crashed my lips to Poppy’s waiting mouth. The minute I tasted her sweet taste on my lips, a deep peace filled me from within. Pulling back, I pressed my forehead to hers.

“I get to stay here with you? Forever?” I asked, praying it was true.

“Yes,” Poppy answered gently, and I could hear the complete serenity in her voice. “Our next adventure.”

This was real.

It was real.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“When you’re near, my heart doesn’t sigh, it soars,”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“When you know that something is finite, it makes it that much more meaningful.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“An unrivaled beauty, limited in its life. A beauty so extreme in its grace that it can’t last. It stays to enrich our lives, then drifts away in the wind. Never forgotten. Because it reminds us we must live. That life is fragile, yet in that fragility, there is strength. There is love. There is purpose. It reminds us that life is short, that our breaths are numbered and our destiny is fixed, regardless of how hard we fight.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses