What I expected was the courtesy of an honest emotional reaction.
Instead, I got "I'm gonna think about it" and teenage silences.
I don't know that Maggie. I've never met her before.
Only Maggie I know is the one standing right here in front of me - the one who saved my butt more times than I can count, and put her own life on the line for the 2nd Mass over and over again.
All right, the war wiped the slate clean.
I'm no longer Hal the high-school jock, and you're not Maggie the junkie thief.
That might be the only good thing that came from this whole mess -
a chance to start over, to become better people than we were before.
Only Maggie I know is the one standing right here in front of me - the one who saved my butt more times than I can count, and put her own life on the line for the 2nd Mass over and over again.
All right, the war wiped the slate clean.
I'm no longer Hal the high-school jock, and you're not Maggie the junkie thief.
That might be the only good thing that came from this whole mess -
a chance to start over, to become better people than we were before.