Status Updates From Insomniac City: New York, O...

“I hope you’ll forgive me if I don’t write you a letter.”

“Is that the start of a letter?”

“Yeah, one in which I don’t know what to say. How do I ever say everything you mean to me?”

“I want everything from you that I don’t have”

“O, when I accidentally dropped a carton of cherry tomatoes on the floor:

‘How pretty! Do it again!’

So I do.”

“I would not be surprised if half of New York City has also put dibs on the Monet that Emily chose. This made it no less hers.

I brought her in closer to her new acquisition: ‘Emily, meet your Monet. Monet, Emily.’

Words did not fail her: ‘Hello, beautiful,’ she whispered.”