You didn’t say anything.

You just nodded, like it was going to be okay.

That made me believe it was going to be okay.

I’m taking my first flying lesson today.

The girl had signed her full name, carefully, the way you sign something you mean, and under it she had drawn a small airplane with a sun beside it.

Maya stood in her kitchen for a while with the letter in her hand and thought about the nod.

She did not remember it.