Forbidden Never Felt This Good
"We watched a documentary about bridge construction once, I don't even remember how we ended up on it, and within twenty minutes Josie was emotional about the workers."
"Was it sad?"
"It was, actually, when you got into it. But Josie found it before any of us were even paying attention." She paused. "That's her gift. She finds the feeling in things before everyone else does."
Something about the way she said it made me look at her. She was smiling at the screen, relaxed in a way she rarely fully allows herself to be, and the blue television light was doing something gentle to her face and I thought, not for the first time, that this was the version of her the world didn't get to see very oft