Sublime

Near-adolescent romantic haze befuddling me as I ascended stairs. But reality cannot be ignored; we must grow up.

piquant:

I’m aware that Chloe may have no memory of me at all. She’s too young. But I want her to grow up knowing that I was the first man ever to fall in love with her. I’d always thought the father/daughter thing was overstated. But I can tell you, it’s real. Sometimes, she looks at me and I just become a puddle.

aberration

finding the untouched core of herself,

In his memoir Self-Consciousness, John Updike wrote that he was offering his as “a specimen life, representative in its odd uniqueness of all the oddly unique lives in this world.”

insouciance.