At Prom Only One Boy Asked Me to Dance and Thirty Years Later Our Paths Crossed Again

against to finish arriving.

“I thought this was just my life now,” he said. “I stopped imagining it differently.”

Emily sat down beside him on the curb, in the afternoon light with the parking lot noise around them and traffic moving on the street beyond.

“It was your life,” she said. “It does not have to be the rest of it.”

He looked at her for a moment.continue reading …