I ARRIVED AT MY BEACH HOUSE EXPECTING PEACE-YILUX

to hold onto it before it slipped away completely.

“I understand,” he said, but I could tell he was still standing at the edge of that understanding, not fully inside it yet, not fully willing to accept it.

“No,” I replied gently, shaking my head just a little, “you’re starting to,” and that was as much as I could give him without pretending things were continue reading …