She said: I’m sorry about the invitation.
She said: genuinely.
She said: I’m sorry I organized around excluding you.
She said: that was.
She said: I was doing the same thing at forty that I was doing at sixteen.
She said: that’s not. That’s not something I’m proud of.
I looked at
her.
I had not expected an apology.
I had not come for an apology.
I did not know entirely what to do with it.
I said: thank you.
I said: I accept that.
She said: you didn’t have to come.
I said: no.
She said: why did you really come?
I said: because I needed to know that the hallway wasn’t still the hallway.
She said: was it?
I said: no.
I said: it wasn’t.
She said: good.
She said: Claire.
She said my name.
She said: you really do look incredible.
