John Dallas is my next best friend.

i've only known him for a little over a year but he knows my secrets, my ambitions, my fears, he knows me.

-and he still loves me.

that's hard to find.

[we've gone out twice] after meeting at Church Camp

the first time:

last summer

the thing was. . . it was a mere summer fling.

the second time ( and currently):

[it's made me utterly and incandescently happy]