we hold our faces close to one another and say, this was nice, I’ve missed this, I’ve missed you. Our availability makes us equals. It is before the majority of them have children where their inflexible diaries denote adulthood. My childlessness and my endlessly empty hours mean I work around them, learn not to take it personally, the silence, the vague dates to meet up that go by or the missed appointments to call, and instead shrug them off. They have families and serious lives.
