She loves that bullet! It's the one toy she actually went looking for one night. She came upstairs after I had fallen asleep and woke me up digging through the nightstand. When I asked her what she was looking for, she told me "I want the bullet but I was hoping to use it next to you in bed while you were asleep."


I graciously offered to pretend to sleep.

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.