Three More Things That Have Made Me Cry Lately

and then we'll call a moratorium on the sappiness.

1. Reading a letter my brother wrote me while he was in basic training.

2. Examining a copy of my birth certificate.

3. Listening to a story about how a man's brother broke his neck in a swimming accident when they were teenagers and how the man's brother ended up paralyzed from the neck down. Then listening to him tell about the positive attitude his brother had towards life in spite of it all and how his brother even got married last year. He said it was the most emotional wedding he had ever attended.

I am now moved back in with the 'rents, my stuff is safely in storage, a lady I just met has plans to set me up with a "good looking guy," and this new chapter of my old life can officially begin.