To everyone concerned,

It was easy to call us forbidden and harder to call us soul mates. However, I believed that we were both. Forbidden Soul Mates When I arrived in Edgewood, Wisconsin, I didn't plan to find him. I didn't plan on showing up at Joe's Bar and feeling like Daniel's music was stirring up my emotions. I had no idea that his voice would make my pain forget my own sadness. I had no idea that my happiness would remember its own bliss. When I started my senior year at my new school, I wasn't ready to call him Mr. Daniels, but sometimes in life, the right events come at exactly the wrong time. Our love story is not only about physical connection. It's about family. It's about loss. About how to stay alive. She was stupid. Sad. Funny. This story was ours. And for all these reasons, I would never regret loving Mr. Daniels.

—Ashlyn Jennings