Decades ago, Kota, my daughter’s classmate and our neighbor, confessed his childhood crush and asked me to marry him when he grew up. I gently turned him down. Years later, my daughter brings home her fiancé, and the familiar young man at the door is Kota. That night I casually ask whether he remembers the past. He answers that he still loves me, kisses me without warning, and I find myself giving in to the grown man he has become...