Robyn I felt so dizzy that I might have fallen down if I hadn't been safely squeezed between two muscular bodies. The kitten, tired of being squished, had climbed up onto my shoulder. Had I fallen into an alternate reality? Maybe when my mother fed me almond milk I had actually slipped into a coma, and I was now dreaming. I mean, who in the hell gives his girlfriend a house for her nineteenth birthday? But the thing that got me wasn’t the astronomical price tag that must be attached to such an outrageous and extravagant gift…it was the understanding. It was the fact that Jack and Phoenix understood that everything in my life for the last three, almost three and a half years had been temporary, transient, unreliable… and actually kind of terrifying. When I lost my father, I had lo

