She had beenwas sorting through old papers, so Shethat she could burn them before she died: tax records from 1973, old letters, photos of Who Exactly?who exactly? But people arewere invited. andAnd as Sheshe tried to stuff 50 years of once preciousonce-precious papers back into one less box than they came out of, the corner of a blue aerogram caught her eye. The Tiffany blue corner is all Shethat she needed to see for the gut clenching wave of hunger, curiosity, aand deep internal need, to flow from her gut, to her loins to her knees. Like, like the sudden onset of a tropical illness.

The aerogram iswas date stamped February 20, 1969. The familiar crab track scrawl in high contrast red ink statesstated that it was written on a Sunday, from an industrial village on the German border of Holland and that he loves meloved her. He has countedhad been counting the days...