i met shannon right at the end of may this year. we had our first date june 17, 2026. i took her to a hammock cafe. we traded journals and created pages for each other. shannons a poet, so she wrote an excerpt of one of her poems into my journal. i remember how nervous it made me, having said something about a kiss. i cant remember why we were talking about heartbeats, but she brought my hand to her chest for a moment. i have not felt butterflies like that in a very long time. eventually, we went off...