39 “May I please now tell you that I love you and will pledge my life to you from this moment, and would like to bake you into a cream pie so that I can eat you up, or spread you like butter across toast, because I LOVE YOU SO MUCH I can barely form the words and might possibly expire right at this very moment, I am so ecstatically moved. Thank you,” Sarah says breathlessly. “The end.” And I am laughing so hard at that, it feels like the weight of two universes has finally dropped from my body. “Oh my gosh, Sarah, I have no idea what’s going to happen from that.” “I don’t care,” she says. “It was delicious. I only wish Daniel could have been there. His protestations of love might have even exceeded my own.” I feel like running. So I do. And Red and Sarah run right along. The three of

