Pete stumbled away, shoulders hunched, his whole body drained of spirit like a puppet with its strings cut.
I knew he'd never come back. Not that I cared either way.
Colin and I had been dating for a year when he graduated, and he brought me home to meet his parents.
I was a bundle of nerves going into it, after all, I was quite a few years older than him.
But that worry vanished into thin air the second I laid eyes on his mom and dad.
Who would've guessed? Colin's mom was a full ten years older than his dad, and looking at my future in-laws, still as head-over-heels for each other as they'd been on their wedding day after decades of marriage, I finally believed it...
For some people, love never hits its expiration date.
