“I guess it's just so I remember where I started.”

“Do you ever go back?"Ruthann nods, "When I need to remember where I came from, or where I'm headed.”

“But I didn't frame it; I put into an envelope and sealed it and stuffed it far back into a corner drawer of a filing cabinet. It's there, just in case one of these days I start to lose her.There might be a morning when I wake up and her face isn't the first thing I see. Or a lazy August afternoon when I can't quite recall anymore where the freckles were on her right shoulders. Maybe one of these days, I will not be able to listen to the sound of snow falling and hear her footsteps.”

“I sometimes wonder if it's just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they're supposed to be by going nowhere.”

“I remember everything Campbell," she interrupts. "If I didn't, this wouldn't be so hard.”

“Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you what you learned along the way.”

“I hadn't been thinking, actually. I was just trying to get to a place where I'd be noticed.”