By Jon Peters Copyright ©2025 It’s late December in perpetually hot, humid Galveston, Texas. Yua, my girlfriend, is home from college for winter break. We haven’t seen each other since August, the first time we’ve been separated for longer than a week since we began dating two years earlier. She left Galveston for bigger dreams, and I stayed for the beach. It’s our first night together, and we can’t keep our hands off each other. We’re sitting on my bed, just like we used to,