"I could feel hot, salty tears coming down my face. I sat and cried silently... I was scrunching myself up against the wall as far as I could. All of a sudden, someone from behind us taps on the guy’s shoulder..."
"Their absence is everywhere. The silence is deafening. The heartache is real. And you wonder how the heck that happened? Because 18 years is a long time, right? How could it be over already?"