VALERIEThe word does not cover it.The word is the smallest possible container for the thing that the completed picture was.She saw me first.This is the part I have not yet arrived at and I am arriving at it now with the precision it requires, Jasmine saw me before Collins knew I was there. The specific quality of the moment in which her eyes found the door, found the gap of it, found the woman standing in the gap. Her face in the low lamp light.I watched her see me.The moment, the specific moment of mutual recognition that was not mutual because it was only her eyes finding me, not Collins knowing I was there, not the room knowing I was there, only Jasmine and I in the specific locked recognition of two people who have seen each other in a moment that will not be unseen.Her expression.I am going to account for her expression because her expression was information and I was, even then, even in that moment with the document in my hand and the room in front of me, a woman who rec
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