The letter said: Luca — I came to this building as a debt. I want you to know that I understand, completely, the difference between that and what I am now — which is someone who chooses to be here every single day with full information and no obligation and the specific clarity of a person who knows exactly what they have. You gave me a key to a building and told me it was always meant to be something good. I think you were the thing it was always meant to be. You and Daniel and your father and all the history that assembled itself in these walls before either of us arrived. I choose you. I chose you the night you moved my coffee cup without being asked. I chose you the morning you told me your father’s story. I choose you today in front of the people we love in the courtyard you plant

