Sunny Garden

    The sun will set soon. In the south-west, beyond the next headland the Glasshouse Mountains stand in a hazy blue twilight, like people lost in fog (p. 182).

    We sit at the table near the door.
    So what's happening on the weekend? you ask me.
    Family stuff. Dinner tomorrow night with my mother and my grandparents, her parents, probably at a place called Portofino at St Lucia (p. 185).

    And all the time I'm saying this I'm realising you won't be there. I want to tell you that I'll miss you, I want to stop now and tell you how I feel about you. I'm looking into your eyes and telling you about my grandparents eating Italian food, and I think you mean a lot to me (p. 186).

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