This memoir is comprised of a collection of stories offered to reveal our deepest feelings of authenticity, cutting through layers of scar-tissue covering old wounds. We pride ourselves on sedating our pain to escape feeling loneliness. We cage our animals and harness their free spirits. Have we done the same to ourselves? They say white roses are more ephemeral than the red ones. The title story of a failed love affair resonates to themes of loss, failure, redemption and the power of connection. Here are stories to remind us we are all connected; and love is the energy of that connection.