#bye rip

ALYSSA MAHONEY LORIC --

age 32, happily married to Octavia Loric (nee Greene), mother to two (soon to be 4) children and founder, ceo and legal rep of ‘foster love’ - an agency and support network for foster children and children in need.

‘ -so growing up, i lived in many houses. but none of them….none were home. and i spent most of my life looking for home. in houses, in hospitals, in myself. but i came up empty handed. 

until one day. until the night you, tavia, you placed your heart in my hands when you told me you loved me. now, i may have forgotten quite a substantial amount about my life that year, but i’m glad i was able to remember how that night felt. how it felt to put my heart in your hands and hold yours in return. 

and finally, i was home... because home is in the arms that you hold me close with, home is in the hands you hold my heart with. you are my home, octavia greene. 

i never make promises, but i promise you now that i will love you, protect you and support you - always. i look forward to spending the rest of my life with you, to coming back to our house every evening, and to holding you close and being able to say “honey, i’m home”. ’