I was emotionally and mentally exhausted from the past day and a half. The last time my emotions were on this kind of roller coaster was the weekend that my brother passed. I didn't know what to do. Here, across from me, in one of the coolest restaurants in Philly, was this big-giant-hulking-bruised-fighter holding me for the second time today. That had to be some kind of record. There was just no controlling myself! I couldn't seem to keep the waterworks from pouring out of my eyelids. I wanted to suck it up and be tough Sofia once again; but tough Sofia needed a break. She had been holding it together for years. "I won't let you go. Ever again. Sorry." He was whispering the words against my hair, the way that he used to when we had been sitting in Fairmount Park in front of th

