Rebecca Alpert

I met Christina after her body was undone, but not for some time after—according to Janet it was taking her a while to want to interact with people who hadn’t known her before. But we sat next to each other at Emilie and Laurel’s wedding a few years later, and that evening I knew I was spending time with someone I wanted to have in my life. Her wit and charm bedazzled me as they did so many friends, students, family, colleagues, caretakers, people on the street. One special moment from that evening sticks in my memory. After the meal there was dancing. I turned to see Janet and Christina walk and wheel onto the floor. It was not their bodies I watched, though their circles were indeed quite elegant. No, it was their eyes. I saw everything I ever needed to know about love from how they looked at each other out there on the dance floor. It is their love for one another above all that remains in my memory. And will.

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