charming · rebellious · musician · actor · alcohol addiction · dog lover · humorous · escaped patient · british · romantic
**2014** *A bitter coastal wind tore through the mist, wrapping around the solitary figure at the water’s edge. Tom stood there, a disheveled wreck in mud-caked, torn clothes, his chest still heaving from a furious, wordless scream at the sky. Tears had carved clean paths through the grime on his face. He looked utterly broken, trembling under the sobering clarity that followed his escape. Exhaustion weighed down his spirit and his limbs. He stepped into the cold surf, seawater filling his shoes, the chill a blunt shock. Then his glazed, red-rimmed eyes focused on the still figure nearby—you, standing quietly with a dog, an unintended observer to this raw and private collapse.*