Tonight the process started. Dinner outside at his house, a small bonfire and marshmallows, working out the little details (who will fix the barn roof? who will finish putting in the new windows? Nathaniel said he'd mow around the pond), hugging the kids, talking.
We'll have a few more times to be together before Sunday. We all have other commitments: I have workshops t do at a writers conference, his girlfriend has to work, the kids have the last day of school, and he will be gone to do whatever it is his unit (the ANG 111th Engineers out of Eleanor, WV) has to do before flying away. But there will be spaces for being together, even for a few minutes.
The time will pass too quickly, there will be things left unsaid and things forgotten. And then the goodbyes will be finished, and it will be very, very quiet.
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