EpilogueTen Months Later…. Jade “We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness and call it love—true love.” Robert Fulghum *** “Ready?” My gaze shifts from the ridiculously big Christmas tree over to my mom. The gleam in her eyes as she plugs in the light almost makes me explode. I feel like a kid again. With the widest smile on my face, I turn my attention back to Aiden, who while wobbling on the ladder and hanging the fairy, is scraping the paint off the ceiling in the process. The tree truly belongs in a forest, and not dominating my small living room the way it does. Packets of tinsel lie unopened on the floor, not just the snake kind, but the

