The wife he left behind
Neither of them moved for a long moment, and then, slowly, carefully, the way everyone in this story had learned to move toward each other this week, they closed the distance between them, and Naomi reached out, and the woman took her hand, and the two of them stood there on the path, holding hands, fifty four years collapsing into a single, impossible moment.
“My name’s Eve,” the woman said softly. “I never knew if I had a name before that. The one my parents gave me. I always wondered if there’d been another one, once.”
“I don’t know if I had one either,” Naomi said. “But I know we have these.” She held up the wooden bird, and Eve’s breath caught, and she reached into her bag, slowly, and
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