Old Souls

          “People with a long, straight heart line are usually good lovers,” I say with a playful smirk.            “Makes sense,” he jokes, and I find myself giggling and my cheeks warming.            “It also means you are expressive, romantic, and value true love in your life.”            “Hmm…”            “Look, mine is long  too.” I open my palm for him, showing him where the horizontal line starts at my index finger and stretches all the way across my hand, without any breaks or curves.            “Doesn’t everyone have love in their life?” He sounds unimpressed.            Squeezing his open hand in mine, I give him a terse glare. “Not just any love, Emerson. It  means you’ll have true, all-consuming, intoxicating, lifechanging, earth-shattering love. Love you would die for. That you couldn’t possibly live without. Love that makes it hard to breathe. Like you can feel it not just in your heart but in your veins and your bones and your muscles. Everywhere.”   - Sara Cate, Praise,