When Larissa met Ian at college in 2005, she never dreamed she'd one day be his wife ... and his caretaker. After a tragic accident left Ian without the ability to speak, walk or care for himself, she did what any woman in love would do: she married him.
"There will always be the older white woman in Walmart who stared at us with sheer disgust, or the African-American mother who looked at us and just shook her head.”
"If you’re anything like me, you probably tried to end it time and time again. You’d make your mind up to break up once and for all, but then it wouldn’t happen."
“You fall out of the airplane and in one second you realize that it's the most blissful experience of your life. You realize at the point of maximum danger, is the point of minimum fear.”
"1 hour after our plane took off this morning a massive bomb went off less than a half mile from the hotel I have been staying at and very near to the homes of all of my friends there. The whole city shook and the whole city is shaken."