Chapter 27
All good things end. That is the truth of the human condition. Our lives are straw houses, so carefully built, too easily blown down.
Life goes from good, to bad, to worse.
Put that on a f*****g Hallmark card and mail it to yourself, because you may need reminding.
The best thing that ever happened to me ended on a bitter-cold winter morning five years before Cameron Finke and Honey came into my life to seriously f**k up a good comfortable rut.
I asked Elizabeth, Beth, out a week after our surprise reunion on the campus where we went to college. I expected her to say no, because it was me asking, but I thought she’d do it kindly, because she was kind. She surprised me by saying yes, and before I’d even finished bumbling out the awkward request.
A year after graduation, me
