How I Met My Wife.
We have done the part of the conversation that needed doing.
After dinner, we wash the dishes together.
It is, of all the things that have happened in the last six weeks, the most disorienting. We are standing at his small kitchen sink, side by side, with our shoulders touching. He washes. I dry. He hands me a plate. I dry the plate. He hands me a pan. I dry the pan. He hands me a fork. I dry the fork. We are not talking. We are doing the small, normal thing, the small thing that is not a hospital, the small thing that is not a break room, the small thing that is a man and a woman, in a kitchen, on a Saturday, washing dishes.