In the distance, the lights of the Ferris wheel rotated through space. I told her that I loved her to try out what it sounded like, and once I said it, I couldn’t stop saying it. I told her in Yiddish, in Polish, in French, in Portuguese, in Latin, in my pidgin Spanish. I told her in Mandarin, in Cantonese. I told her in Russian. But my favorite, of course, was to tell her in English: three simple syllables, subject, verb, object. I (Adam Paskow) love (with my whole heart) you (Sala Wiskoff).
