““You may not approve, Mama, but for the first time in my life, I have found someone who makes me smile, someone whose absence from a room makes me sad, someone whose eyes seek mine when there is a good joke to be shared. For the first time in my life I wonder what it would be like to hold that person when I am old and gray. And that, in my experience, is a most promising start. Now, if you will excuse me, I must go.””
