Hopes and Heartaches
                    
 
                        A better ending for a gloomy beginning
                     
                    “Only if you know how to." I heard that as I saw him wipe those tears away. I stopped dead in my tracks momentarily forgetting why I was in that empty hallway again. I longingly watched his back disappear into the men’s room with drooping shoulders, seemingly carrying the weight of the world. Could a heart become whole and crumble into pieces all at the same time over and over? It’s been what? Two or three months? I’ve lo...