One month each year the shackles of everyday life drop free and the little kid in all of us gets one more chance to believe that it can happen. That this is The Year.
Something dies when you grow older, but you do the best you can. -Jesse Lacey
Romance tends to be beaten out of us by the time we grow old or even middle aged. The dreams of youth are replaced by mortgages, student loans, and a 40 hour work week that frequently grows longer. Settling in to life means that all the grand hope that came with being young is surrendered to attempting to just get by on most days.