proposal properly, too? You already asked me badly about six times.”
“Practice makes perfect.”
The night before he deployed, we sat on my parents’ porch until the lights went out inside.
He pressed his forehead against mine.
“Don’t let me become some sad story you tell when you’re old.”
“Then come back.”
“I will.”
Six months later, Thomas’s mother called and asked me to come over. Two officers were sitting in her living room.
His aircraft had disappeared during a mission. They had no confirmed crash site
and no body.
