When the Lights Go Out, the Vows Get Tested in the Dark

common. It’s called wandering. It’s dangerous.”

I laughed again, bitter. “Everything is dangerous when you’re old.”

Erin’s eyes were steady. “I need you to hear me without hearing it as judgment. This isn’t about your love. It’s about physics. It’s about bodies failing.”

I sat there and felt something collapse in me—not my resolve, but my illusion that continue reading …