“Now, he holds my deepest darkest secret, because he was in the right place at the right time. Something like that, something that happens not by choice but by fate or destiny, is so much more powerful than if I had chosen to trust him with that knowledge. He was there because life intended him to be, not because I wanted him to be. He’s forever intricately woven into one of the darkest moments of my life, and it’d be impossible to unstitch that bond.”