Our Decade of Love Ended in Snow
Sunlight spilled over the colorful houses, the masts of fishing boats in the harbor, and the cobblestone path I walked along with my suitcase.
It was freezing but brilliantly bright.
The days quickly blurred together in a flurry of grueling hospital work and study.
One afternoon, while sitting by the floor-to-ceiling windows of the library, I looked down and saw a figure who had absolutely no business being there.
Kate was standing in the snow down below. She wasn't holding an umbrella, and a thick layer of white had already accumulated on the shoulders of her black trench coat.
She looked up, and our eyes locked.
Even across a distance of five floors and through the swirling flurries, the m