After the call, I wrote the song title on a piece of paper.

I would send him the information properly rather than trusting him to remember what I had said.

It was a small task.

It mattered because it belonged to a relationship beginning now, rather than a history I was trying to reconstruct.

Over the following days, Samantha kept me informed about the move.

Some conversations were easy.

Others were not.

Once, she started to minimize the years again.