Second Bloom
Rosa and Pep with the birthday bowl — the sixteenth, made specifically for the occasion, small enough for a child to hold, glazed in a color that Pep describes as the color of the Priorat in October and that Clara describes as the color between amber and rust.
Ferran and Laia and Júlia, who is now ten and who has the specific quality of a child who has always been certain she was interesting and has been proved right consistently. Marcus from two streets away, with the wine for the adults and the apple juice for Clara, and the particular expression he wears at these gatherings now — not managed, not translated, simply present, which is what Barcelona did to him.
Clàudia, who has been at ever
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