Rae Stone-von Hannover
In this moment, this tremulous moment, I have everything that I want: my husband before me, holding my hands, all my friends around me (even the one we couldn’t find for a while,) and my cousin over on the side of the church, holding up his cell phone to livestream my wedding to my mother (who is hiding in the barn to watch,) and a child growing inside me.
The autism clinic that I used to doodle about in boring lectures will break ground in a few weeks. When I finish college, I will turn the key to the front door and walk in.
I have love, I have good work, and I have my life. I am free and yet I am held and loved.
My most desperate, impossible hopes have become my future.