For both of us, writing becomes the rare chance we get to pause the chaos of our lives: to stop and smell the flowers, look at our surroundings, and enjoy the intoxicating mess of it all. We hope that in the same way, this collection to you, the readers, feels like laying in a field of flowers. We hope reading each page is equally beautiful and peaceful, but also evokes emotion: the emotion of finding yourself, of relearning your loved ones, of unthinkable pain, of insurmountable love. Beware the few flowers with thorns that lie in these pages; it is a fact of nature that some beautiful things in life may be painful. Lastly, though there may be pieces you don’t care for, we ask that you only treat them as a flower you’ve walked past in the park, accepting it as it is, for nature cannot be changed, and we will respect your choice not to plant those flowers in your garden. With that, relax and stop to smell the roses we’ve grown for you.