In the sixth year she asked him if she could read the letters again.
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They were on the balcony. It was July. It was hot. The children were at their mother's for the week and the apartment was quiet.
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He brought out the shoebox and set it on the table.
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She opened it and took out the twelve letters and read them.
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It took an hour and a half. He sat across from her and looked at the city.
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When she finished she put them back in the box and closed the lid.
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"These are terrible," she said.
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He looked at her.
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"They're the letters of a fifteen-year-old," he said.
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"They're terrible."
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"They're yours."
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She looked at the box.
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"There are thirteen in here," she said.
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"I put yours in with mine."
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"You put my letter in the shoebox."
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"I did."
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She looked at him.
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She looked at the river.
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"It was a film," she said. "For twenty years it was a film. And then it was a shoebox. And then it was an apartment with a print on the wall and a plant on the windowsill and three children who come on weekends."
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She looked at him.
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"And now it's this," she said. "A wall. On a summer evening. With you."
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He looked at the sky.
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"What do you want now," he said.
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She was quiet for a moment.
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"This," she said.
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They sat on the wall until the sun went down.
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The stars came out. There were more stars than there were in Tokyo. There were more stars than he had ever seen.
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She leaned against him.
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He put his arm around her.
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They did not say anything else.33Please respect copyright.PENANAcOAunRSUHi


