When Winter Blooms
He stopped.
"They were very nice flowers," I said.
"They weren't the same."
"No," I agreed. "They weren't."
He looked at his hands, the car slowed for a light, outside a woman was walking a dog the size of a small sofa and appeared completely unbothered by this. The light changed, we moved.
"I won't miss another one," he said.
"I know," I said, because I did. Because that was the kind of man he was becoming again, the one who showed up, who stayed past eight, who sat in the second row and leaned forward without meaning to. That man was not going to miss another spring show.
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