Allison says it all: friendship is such a gift.

Allison experiences a taste of caregiving, the annoyances, terrors, and small joys.

Youth gives the ability to absorb time changes quickly, and the wish to enjoy every minute of every day.

Spring arrives on the "other" side, too, and Sasha is ready to send a message with blue sky as the backdrop.

It might just be spring on Pine Street, as Franny looks up from her keyboard into a sunbeam that feels different, somehow.

David's plan takes shape, the shape of a tangled web of distorted growth.

Kassandra's genuine kindness collides with David's self-absorption.

Close encounters of the small-town kind, as experienced by Allison.

David prefers the cold wind to the coldness in his heart triggered by seeing Leo disappear into Franny's apartment building.

Leo's feet are wet, and tingly, and he laughs his way through the first test of his ability to be in a love relationship.