Meet Me at the Intersection by Ambelin Kwaymullina

Author:Ambelin Kwaymullina
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fremantle Press
Published: 2018-10-22T16:00:00+00:00

The girl didn’t know what to say to all of that. She lived to worry. Her life was all about worry. Too much silence. Too much isolation. It made a person afraid, unable to move. After a time, she said, Wow, that helps. Thank you.

Thank you, I said.

She laughed. For what? she asked me.

For everything, I said. She’d saved me. She didn’t know this. Without her, I wouldn’t be kneeling by a wood burning stove in a farmhouse in New Zealand, feeding cypress into a fire. The girl was me, and I was the girl. Her sadness was mine, and my happiness was hers.

The girl asked if she could call again sometime.

Call again, Yvette, I said. Call whenever you like. I’ll be right here.

The girl said she would. Then we said goodbye. My wife was out in the garden. I could see her walking through the trees, the cat and the dog following. I would make her a cup of tea soon. We would chat about the day. The gratitude I felt for her love, expressed day after day in the simplest of moments, was without measure.

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