I am a hopeless romantic, who accepts that the most loving and beautiful relationship I may be fated to have in this incarnation is with the soul of my dearly departed Lindsey, who I know now by her soul's name, Sitara, as Marcus has for 17,043 lifetimes (have you picked up on the Marcus/Gregory dichotomy?) Yet, I know enough not to know know what's in store for Greg. Perhaps our desire for this fate will through free will become my destiny, as I wrote in my 2013 self portrait that you read:

"I want to grow old with my best friend, I want to walk down the streets of forever arm in arm. I want to sit on a park bench reading a book, her head in my lap reading her book as I stroke her hair. More important than sharing our highpoints, I want to share the mundane, and each other’s pain. That to me is true unconditional love."

PS: I think you will find my thoughts on the interplay between destiny, fate, and free will interesting. https://marcus17043.medium.com/are-we-puppets-bc4baa1bfd09