She said: yes.
I said: I wanted to see who you all became.
She said: and?
I said: and some of you became people I would not have expected.
I said: some of you became good.
She looked at me.
She said: and the rest of us?
I said: I think you know who you were.
I said: I think you knew then.
She said: probably.
She said: I was very young.
I said: yes.
She said: that’s not an excuse.
I said: no.
She said: it’s just. I was very young and I didn’t think.
She said: I didn’t think about what it was like to be you.
She said: I was thinking about myself.
She said: which is what we do at sixteen, I suppose.
She said: but you were there too.
She said: and I wasn’t thinking about you.
I said: no.
