How I Met My Wife.
He is just here, in a car, holding a coffee, looking at the woman he is dating with the small, tired, very real look of a man who is here because he is here.
I take a sip. It is the right coffee. It is the exact right coffee. It is the coffee I have been drinking for six weeks, the coffee with caramel drizzle and oat milk, the coffee that I described to him in a recovery room while on morphine, the coffee that he has been ordering for me, in paper cups, with foam hearts, in the small, private way that has become the entire thing.
I lean back in the seat. I close my eyes for a second. I think: day one was hell.