If He Had Been With Me
Laura Nowlin, 2013
Autumn has loved the boy next door since before she could name it. A story about the enormous weight of the smallest missed chances.
Laura Nowlin
The novel came out quietly in 2013 and became a bestseller nearly a decade later, when readers on TikTok rediscovered it and would not let it go.
Feels like love, longing and grief.
Loving someone so long it stops being a feeling and becomes a body part.
I’ve loved him my whole life, and somewhere along the way, that love didn’t change but grew. It grew to fill the parts of me that I did not have when I was a child. It grew with every new longing of my body and desire until there was not a piece of me that did not love him. And when I look at him, there is no other feeling in me. Books by Laura Nowlin
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