The Third Twin
“Must take a bathroom break, ladies. When I return I want to hear about Honduras. It’s killing me.”
“I need to go, too,” said Maya. “You, Di?”
Dianna didn’t answer at first. When she did, it was with a deeply troubled look on her face. “Yeah, I suppose we still have the call of nature.”
It occurred to me as I walked to the men’s room that the carefree ladies I’d met on the plane had been robbed by me. Robbed of their last moments, their last pretenses, the last semblances of themselves. It didn’t matter that the appreciation for life I’d perceived in them was a form of witting denial; I’d still stolen precious time by revealing myself to them. I was glad, by way of consolation, that I’d know
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