She said: you did this for me.
She said it simply.
Not with the weight of an enormous statement.
With the specific weight of something true and small and enough.
She said: you saved up and you found the tickets and you brought me here.
She said: because you knew I had never seen it.
She said: because you knew Edwin had wanted to.
She said: because you are the kind of person who notices what people need and does something about it.
She said: I wonder where you learned that.
I said: I learned it from you.
She said: yes.
She said it without false modesty.
Without performance.
Just yes.
Yes, you did.
The ocean kept coming.
The light was changing the way it changes in the late afternoon, going gold the way light goes gold on the water.
Rose watched it.
I watched her watch it.
She said: when Edwin said he was going to take me.
