Saturday he came to pick up the Georgetown file.
Not the whole thing a specific section I'd been annotating, the kind of cross-referenced note that didn't transfer cleanly in email. He'd offered to come get it. I'd said yes without the usual calculation about whether that was a good idea.
Progress, I supposed.
He arrived at noon. I had the file ready on the counter. We were going to do the handoff in five minutes and that was going to be the whole of it.
We were still there at two.
It happened the way it always happened with him by increments so small you couldn't point to any single one and say: that was where it changed.
The file led to a question about the liability section. The liability section led to the clause we'd been arguing about since October. We ended up at the kitchen c
