I had just accidentally smashed br my boyfriend Howard in the forehead br with a horseshoe. The blood surged br through his eight year old fingers, br dripping down his face. I screamed, br dropped the horseshoe and spun br to race towards the house, br 'No, don't tell anyone! ' He tried to br block me from reaching grown-ups br and help. br br I remember looking into his eyes, br and seeing blind love, and fear. br He could forgive me any pain I would br ever cause him, and deny it as well. br If they found out he thought, br then our love was lost. Even now br I'm amazed, how love can survive, br in spite of all our visible br and hidden scars.