It took a while.

But a pocket you empty is a pocket that can hold something else, and that was the point — we were not just grieving the old hurts, we were making room.

Chapter 11 — Out of Step

I want to be honest that it was not a straight line, because the story where a shoebox and a slow dance fix forty years in a month is a lie, and we had earned better than a lie.

There was a bad stretch about six weeks in.