I Was Scrolling Facebook When I Saw My Old College Photo—And Realized My First Love Had Been Searching For Me For 45 Years

forty years of grief, love, and loneliness. It was like watching a man drown in slow motion.

When I finished the last one—dated just two weeks before he posted the photo on Facebook—I felt heavy, but also incredibly light.

“You were never really gone,” I whispered. “You were talking to me the whole time.”

“I never stopped,” he said. “You were the only continue reading …