Instead I swallow it section by section and tell myself it means even more this way. To chew and swallow in silence here with her. to taste the same thing in the same moment.
The preacher may never marry us and my mama may never know you but I can kiss you over a flask of whiskey and dance with you under the stars and if that isn’t marriage I'm not sure what else God is looking for.
Truth be told, he never wanted to be a goalie. But as the youngest of four brothers in a very athletic — and apparently rambunctious — family growing up in Imperial, Sask., it fell to the littlest.