Dear Luke,

You are such a great guy, but i’m not a great girl. You are funny, sweet, kind, thoughtful and full of love and joy. I’m a broken human being who has hurt people over and over again. I love you so much, but you deserve someone that you can lean on all the time. I’m not that person. Luke, you deserve happiness and deserve the world and me being in your life isn’t helping you. Some part o...

Charlie Woodlands is my best friend. We do anything and everything together. We share everything with each other. Telling one of us a secret is like telling both of us. But when I was 13, I had to relay on Charlie more than I ever had. The memory is etched into my brain. It was a cloudy day and my small town was quiet. I was walking along a trail that curved around the woods next to my town.

As I ...