It just occurs to me now that Adele would’ve been the perfect soundtrack for my life from late September 1995 up until very late September 2014.

It’s kind of funny how I didn’t realize until after the fact that my brother and my sister-in-law and B+M used the same song at their respective weddings for their walk in, even though I was actually in my brother and my sister-in-law’s wedding and had to listen to it multiple times during the rehearsal.

But it was really this song that started it all, all because I had missed my turn and had to make a U-turn. In the main, it was astounding to realize that someone had loved me, even if that had been long ago, and the window has long since passed. But there is a part of me that is wistful about lost chances.

But things had to be the way they had to be for me to meet my love. I’m not gonna say “everything happens for a reason” because it’s too trite to say it, but, you know….