My Peculiar Man

Twenty-two-year-old Ethan West has autism.
He doesn't know how to tie shoelaces. He doesn't know how to ride a bike.
He doesn't know what you shouldn't talk about in public. He doesn't know how to lie.

I am Elizabeth Thall. People say I'm the prettiest girl in the senior year.
I had my whole life figured out. I thought I knew everything.

Then I met him.
He was different from anyone I had ever known. He was unswervingly loyal. He was so brutally honest he made me want to cry. But he also made me smile like never before.

I fell irrevocably in love with him. There was no other way.
But I found out that he wasn't mine to love.