Ten.Two Thousand, One Hundred & Eighty-Five
- Just a few more minutes. And a few minutes more. And more. 
- Digging the finals week schedule and these two very different drop-offs. 
- He says my eyes look brighter. 
- Still positive. 
- Yeah, I’m doing the wrong thing here. 
- It’s the little things. 
- It’s dark, and he’s driving. We’re picking up his younger sister from the middle school. “Wow. I’m getting old,” he says. I say something about how many years it’s been since he’s been inside the middle school. “I realized today that I only have five more semesters of high school.” “It’s going so fast,” I say quietly. 
- We sit on opposite sides of the couch. 
- “Your conversations are interesting.” 
- Who’s washing clothes when there’s no dryer? 
