At one time I may have imagined that love at
first sight was a preposterous idea, a result of the wishful thinking of
hopeless romantics. But now that it has
happened to me, I no longer doubt its possibility. She made a believer out of me.
From the moment I first met that girl, our
spirits connected. It was almost like
magic, the way she reached down deeply into my heart, tapping into emotions I
didn’t realize I was capable of. A
powerful sadness for her lost childhood and stolen innocence. A fierce desire to protect her. A pervasive sense that we belong
together. She gave me the courage to say yes to something I had never thought possible: giving my heart to a
teenage foster child. She taught me how
to dream.
