I tucked the Camel coupon from his cigarette pack into my pocket. A souvenir of the moment where he said maybe. I would hold on to his maybe for as long as it would take, even forever.

“It was strange walking through the empty apartment. My battered purple room was…”

“I told him I had once lost everything I had, too, and that I think that can be …”

“If they were the jokes, I was the punch line.”

“We had so much to say to each other, like we’d been quiet our whole lives until…”