You saying to me that you will love me no matter what I choose to be, no matter how I present myself, whoever I love, and always, was exactly what I didn't know I needed to hear. And you kissed my hand and I wrapped my arms around you fiercely I love you and will not let go.
And my words froze and stuck in my throat- as the peculiar feeling that is my stomach, expanded as it persists in doing any time someone says something like that- before if I am not careful, I weep.