“You ever wish that you were up there? You ever miss…?”
He nodded and shrugged in one fluid motion. “Whatever we had…it was something. It’s a part of me. But it didn’t last, and it wasn’t supposed to. I think life’s complicated, Connor, and it’s longer than you think, even when it seems to be going by in a blur. One minute I’m running for eighty-three yards. Then I’m dancing with the prettiest girl on the face of the moon. Then I’m…I’m helping Raoul step over barbed wire on a bloody leg, knowing he’s not going to make it. I saw things even those moon maidens know nothing about. I think everybody gets a fair helping of this and that. Sometimes we don’t know what to do with it. Sometimes it looks like one big mess of fun and fighting. But I do believe it works out in the end. It did for me,
