"We laughed and laughed, together and separately, out
loud and silently, we were determined to ignore
whatever needed to be ignored, to build a new world
from nothing if nothing in our world could be salvaged,
it was one of the best days of my life, a day during
which I lived my life and didn't think about my
life at all. Later that year, when snow started to hide
the front door steps, when morning became evening as I
sat on the sofa, buried in everything I'd lost, I
made a fire and used my laughter for kindling."