Today’s outcome had two possibilities. Though both would unite us, each offered a very different pathway to that unification. Option A offered a date and time together. Of course, he improved upon the basics and made those plans better, until I ruined Option A and forced Option B. In hindsight, I could argue that my selfishness, though self-centered, unbecoming and not submissive, ended up drawing us even closer together than even he could have predicted or organized. That part of the story is housed inside