69. : Un amor exagerado – A street corner lamplight on 6th street

Her reply was a slap. It echoed down the street, in the twilight.
“Maria,” he said, running after her. She cried as she ran. “Maria I love you …”

And five years later, standing on the street corner where she had left him he stood under the street lamp in daylight. He was watching her across the street. She had walked over to the café, and he had meant to run over and say hello … but then the man had stood up and she had kissed him. Two children ran up to hug her and that had settled that.