Sweetheart, let me tell you something no teenager ever believes, but I guarantee you is the absolute truth. You fall in love more than once. It will happen again. It will be just as amazing and extraordinary as the first time and maybe just as painful. But it’ll happen again. I promise. But until then, be your own anchor.
I’ve seen something like gay marriage go from a wedge issue used to drive us apart, to a story of freedom across our country, a civil right now legal in states that seven in 10 Americans call home.