How I Met My Wife.
He exhales the way a man exhales when he has been holding his breath for a long time, the way a man exhales when the answer is the right one, the way a man exhales when the woman he is dating has just said the thing he was hoping she would say, except he was not going to say it, because it had to be her answer, and her answer was the right one, and he is exhaling because the right one is the one he needed.
"Okay," he says. "No show. Just us."
He reaches over. He takes my hand. His thumb is on my knuckles. The way it has been every time. The small, careful, very specific way of holding a hand that I am going to think about for the rest of my life.
For the first time in weeks, it does not feel