Taylor Beck The Washington Post

On the top bunk I woke early, thinking of weddings: the one where we met, the one I saw in our future. But feeling in love with everything made it hard to tell how I felt about her. "The difficulty is the usual one," as Virginia Woolf once wrote, "How to adjust the two worlds. It's no good getting violently excited: one must combine."

On the top bunk I woke early, thinking of weddings: the one where we met, the one I saw in our future. But feeling in love with everything made it hard to tell how I felt about her. "The difficulty is the usual one," as Virginia Woolf once wrote, "How to adjust the two worlds. It's no good getting violently excited: one must combine."