Second Bloom
The twins notice the jasmine for the first time.
Not together — Jordi first, on the morning of the seventeenth, pointed at the building across the street with the finger he uses for things that require explanation and said: "Flor." (Flower — in Spanish, Jordi's language for naming objects tends toward Spanish while his social vocabulary leans Catalan, a pattern the pediatric speech therapist says is entirely normal for multilingual children and which Valentina considers entirely Jordi)
Noa noticed it on the nineteenth, differently: not pointing, not naming, but going to the window with the deliberate movement of someone who has determined that this is where she needs to be, and standing and
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