He studied the photo, slowly, meditatively. "But for seven months, back in ’22, the year when I took this picture of you...Well, admittedly, our last two months were pretty bad, but for five months, those first five months we had together, when I loved you and you loved me, and we were young and life was fresh—I was in ecstasy. Those were truly the happiest days of my life. I’ve come to understand that now."