QUOTE : I don’t want to. I want to spend the rest of my life feeling this way, like I’m only half alive when she isn’t here. There’s nowhere she could go I wouldn’t chase her. Have you ever felt that for anybody?” Shock rounds my mother’s eyes, and her fingers tremble against my chest. “No,” she whispers, her eyes searching my face. “I don’t think most people ever do.” “It’s painful.” A hefty sigh heaves from my chest. “It’s precious, though. I won’t give it up.