control.”
She laughed.
There we were again.
Not two strangers transformed by a declaration, not a friendship disappearing beneath something grander. We were still the people who disputed coffee and birthday procedure. The difference was that neither of us needed the jokes to conceal what was happening.
During the first course, she told me about a new exhibit proposal she had not yet submitted. I asked why she was hesitating. She admitted that it was ambitious, expensive, and difficult to explain in the brief language people liked at early planning
