His wife left us alone.

“I’ve never met anyone as good at getting people to love them as you.” Love in the like-like way. For the last four years.

They drove me home; his wife hugged me.

Four months after they’d officiated our wedding, my husband and I left church.

m.nicole.r.wildhood is a Colorado transplant living in Seattle where she is a fair-weather cyclist. She’s been a scuba diver and saxophonist for over half her life and currently writes for Seattle’s street paper Real Change.