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“You made a choice. When you were seventeen. I’m making one now. I will live with yours, and you can live with mine. We can be enemies or acquaintances, it’s up to you. I’m not going anywhere.”
“I was sixteen years old for a very long time.”
Inside I was still this young girl, frozen in time, by one event. I learned how to cope, to fake maturity, but the fear I carried with me, that was the fear of a little girl who’d lost everything. This place, not just the people in it but the history of this place, the one you are the curator for, gave me something, a past that hadn’t disintegrated into ashes. By coming here, by choosing to stay here, I finally let that sixteen-year-old girl grow. I hope you find a way to do the same.”
This could be any street, anywhere. I recognize some of the neighboring houses, but with my house not here, it’s not my street. I know that doesn’t make sense.” “It does,” Sam agreed. “There’s no anchor for your memory.”
She wasn’t leaving Northampton in the rearview mirror as she’d done the last time. She would come back, visit the cemetery, and remember that before the pain, there had been joy.
