The day left a hole in both of us that couldn’t be filled. We waited for the lip of the crater to erode and fade into the overgrowth, and it did, but we knew where it was and we stepped around it, until I came down off the set of that ridiculous chat show, with the audience murmuring in the commercial break and the host’s eyes round as a cat’s. We were still hugging when my phone rang, and to my surprise it wasn’t Annie but Colson.