Dilah told the story of the train station, the prediction that she and Freddy would find each other, and how beautiful the last two and a half years had been. She looked at Freddy the whole time. When it was his turn to speak—and Freddy had to speak after all of the fuss they’d all made—he thanked each one of them, told one of his stories, this one with all of them in it, that time when there was a snowstorm and they all came in anyway and when people stopped showing up, they hung out later than they should, drinking a few bottles of wine on Klaus’s dime and listening to music from the
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