Le righe
- No occasion. I just thought about you on a Tuesday.
- Nothing back, please. I refuse to turn this into a system.
- You told me about a bakery in Palermo for an hour in 2019. I remembered.
- Free Thursday at 7 your time? I'll call.
- Four time zones and I still tell your stories as if they're mine.
- Two years since the wedding. This is me refusing to let it become three.
- I have no news. I just wanted the mail to say something.
- Still your friend, still bad at texting back.
- Somebody said something at dinner last night and I wanted you in the room for it.
- Sending this instead of another voice memo you'll listen to on Thursday.
- Come visit. October here is the good version.
- Distance is a logistics problem, not a relationship problem. Mostly.
If you only remember one thing
Short and specific beats long and general. “I still think about you driving me to the airport at five in the morning” does more work than three sentences of sympathy, because only you could have written it.