My Best Friend Never Grew Past Age Eight, and No One Believed He’d Find Love — But I Did

officiant pronounced us married.

After that, Noah slipped the plastic ring onto the tip of my little finger.

I did the same for him.

The childhood pact hadn’t brought us to that altar.

It hadn’t survived because we were lonely, desperate, or unable to find anyone else.

It survived because, somehow, two children had recognized the safest place in their lives continue reading …