which make me feel like we are in fact doing this for the first time/ could be 18 rather than 22/23. but not younger.

• listen to Mazzy Star in his single bed.
• make and sleep in a blanket fort.
• run into the cold ocean, to our ankles. run back, shocked.
• pick up a crumpled love letter in Italian from a gutter in Beverly. translate it on google. grin at each other.
• nap by the Mississippi with a young dog.
• carve jack-0-lanterns.
• do rock/paper/scissors for big decisions.
• hold hands.