you knew then, in the face-to-face, that it had been wrong to think of Aidan as a lost cause, that no one is the simple playing card you reduce them to, that the versions of people you shuffle in your head while going from one moment to the next are just that, playing cards, flat and one-dimensional, that there’s this whole animal being to everyone and that in this animal being there’s a point where you and everyone else in the world can meet,
