And everything I wrote down was about the chair, and I didn’t want it to be about the chair.

So I did a joke about the guitar.”

They have been friends since that sentence.

Not a romance; I know what people assume and it is not that, and both of them find the suggestion hilarious and slightly insulting.

They are sixteen now and they are the kind of friends who do not text for three weeks and then talk for four hours.

Part Fifty-One: The Money Orders