When I was 22 years old, I fell in young love with a girl named Megan. I had packed all of my worldly possessions into the back of my used Toyota Rav4 and stopped in Pennsylvania both to pick Megan up for the epic road trip to my first assignment in Las Vegas and to meet her family.

I slept in her little brother’s room. My first morning in that new and unfamiliar place, I woke up to the sound of someone—someone very like Megan—bursting into the room where I slept and jumping into bed with me...

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