hard

Mike asked us on his last night in Italy before heading to his doctorate program in central Pennsylvania, “What do you think you will miss the most?”

Amy immediately said the people.  I clarified, “I am going to miss ‘us’ the most. The three of us.”  They just shook their heads. I flashed a smile, the kind of smile I hoped they would remember in the future whenever the name Rebecca came to mind.  I didn’t bother to insist that I was being truthful. 

Because they know. They have to know.  

really hard.