| "The clouds, they're so small!" She exclaimed, pointing to individual clouds floating far below us, white lumps of cotton over the dark blue surface of the ocean. "Very humbling!" she added, putting her hands under her chin. Her hair was pulled into pigtails on each side, so I kissed her on the back of her neck, and then I leaned back in my chair. All of the peanuts had fallen off the tray onto the floor and underneath my seat. Her pigtails triggered a memory of the first weeks when she had arrived, and I closed my eyes again. |
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