And Everything Else

I looked at him in the morning light.

"Your turn," he said.

I thought.

"The naming," I said. "When I stood at the front of the room. I had prepared what I was going to say — two weeks of notes, actual written notes, because I wanted to say it correctly." I paused. "When I stood there and looked at her and then at the room — at you and Camila and Lucian and Beatrix, all of you having arrived at tha