"I closed my eyes, overwhelmed with the wine, with her, with the impossibility of explaining it. "It's just--his last moments on earth, you know? And the space between my life, and his, was very, very thin. There wasn't any space. It was like something opened up between us. Like a huge flash of what was real what mattered, No me, no him. We were the same person. Same thoughts-- we didn't have to talk. It was just a few minutes but it might have been years, we might as well still be there."