You're Dying

***Hazel***

All my life, I’d heard people say that someone was their entire life.

I’d heard it said with smiles, with laughter, with a kind of certainty that always made me tilt my head and wonder.

I used to think it was an exaggeration—something people said when they didn’t know how else to explain love. How could one person become your whole world? How could your entire existence revolve arou