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Wonderland

“We found Wonderland. You and I got lost in it. And we pretended it could last forever.” ~Taylor Swift I love fantasy, the idea that elves, and wizards, and dwarfs, and witches, and magical lands actually exist somewhere beyond the rainbow. In fact, when I read fantasy I can almost believe that it’s real, that … Continue reading Wonderland

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Happy Endings

Or do they?

“All this time you were pretending. So much for my happy ending.” – Avril Lavigne

Do we honestly still believe in happy endings, in this world full of so many that go the opposite way? I think about all the young people who die before their time, in house fires set by smoking parents, in the line of fire during a gang shooting, in a car driven by another young person going way too fast, or even by taking their own lives. And I am also reminded of the high number of relationships that go bad and devastate both people who had a huge stake in them, of the drug users who waste away their lives as addicts, and of the natural disasters that destroy families and their possessions, forcing them to try and recover or to completely give up. And yet, despite all of these examples to the negative, and in spite of statistics that say otherwise, I still believe in happy endings.

And you ask me why. Continue reading “Happy Endings”