There was no short answer to this; like so much else, it was a long story. But what really makes any story real is knowing someone will hear it. And understand.

“Just because we don’t see eye to eye on everything doesn’t mean we can’t be clo…”

“Okay,' he said. He took a breath. 'What would you do, if you could do anything?…”

“In that distant, hopeful way unreal things can be.”

“There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing l…”