Status Updates From The Happy Tree

"I dreaded this meeting with Hugo in a way that surprised myself. I felt it to be charged with emotion, painful, stirring emotion, as of all the past revoked; of lost youth, and lost joy, and that terrifying sense of regret for the passage of time and of life."

Then I began to cry, and she comforted me. We never said what was the matter, but of course we both knew."