he could feel his hope wilting.

“How wonderful it is to by my age - our age - and learn you were wrong about suc…”

“Over time his images of the baby, like photographs handled too often, had worn …”

“Together, the unlikeliest of penitents, silently, grafting words to air, they s…”

“To be in love was to be dazed twenty times a morning: by the latticework of fro…”