EYES OPEN
I unwrap it in the lift.
Inside the box, wrapped in tissue, is a first edition.
A novel. The one I told Derek in the first year of our marriage was the book that made me understand what writing was supposed to do. I mentioned it once, over dinner, and I barely remember saying it and I certainly did not expect him to remember it.
It is the original nineteen fifty three printing.
I know what this costs because I looked it up once, briefly, the way you look up things you cannot have.
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