Second Bloom
The light is doing what March light does on the Costa Brava — coming in low and specific, the sea a grey-blue that is neither winter nor summer, the town above the harbour making the sounds of a place that is waking up after the long indoor months.
She has Clara's old notebook with her — the first one, from when Clara was eight. Clara gave it to her last year, when she started university, saying: *this is yours more than it is mine. You taught me to do it. Keep the record.* The first notebook, eight years old, full of Clara's handwriting about rocks and twins and what her mother does.
She has her own sixteenth notebook too. Both on the harbour wall.
She opens Clara's notebook to the first en
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