Sydney · 1961 — Today
Sixty years married, and he still tells it the same way: a letter, a plan, a road that wasn't one, and a policeman who nearly finished the whole thing before it started.
Sixty-four years later
What she wanted to know was what he'd be like at the steps — nowhere to go, the uniform up ahead, no way out but reverse. Now she knows. She's known the whole time.