With a broken-down oven, in a hotel kitchen, on an uninhabited island
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On the phone, at a gas station, in our dreams
With fists, with words, with kindness
A stolen letter, a posthumous package, a Christmas card from a stranger
A hasty purchase, a starvation diet, an unwanted pregnancy
A trip to the Antarctic, a 500-mile pilgrimage, a two-hour bus ride
Chinese New Year in Philadelphia, Thanksgiving in Mexico, Passover in prison
Getting married, losing a child, singing in a choir
Claiming a heritage, becoming a citizen, landing in a foreign jail
Sharing a cab, hitching a ride, staying in a marriage
In a strip club, in an emergency room, in a refugee camp
Falling for a firefighter, staying single, trusting someone with your cat
Of failure, of the high dive, of other people