I sat down next to her. Took her hand. This can work, I said. All we have to do is try.

“That was the summer when everything we would become was hovering just over our …”

“Ramfis fled the country after Trujillo's death, lived dissolutely off his fathe…”

“I seem to be allergic to diligence, and Lola said, Ha. What you're allergic to …”

“It was like being at the bottom of an ocean, she said. There was no light and a…”