I told him about the rent money and the repaired guitar.

I told him I had listened to the video enough times to know the pauses in his speech.

I told him I appreciated the gift and resented the secrecy.

I told him Mom’s song was finished and that strangers had begun listening to it.

The hardest paragraph concerned my future.

I wrote that I wanted to become a father someday, although I was in no hurry.