Correspondence

They began to write to each other in earnest. This was in part due to a shared perception. By a small coincidence they discovered that they had both lived in the same city; their pasts seemed to cross and diverge at points that were both interesting and curious to them. Their correspondence grew out of a certain compulsion; the pleasure of it became all consuming. When they had pause to reflect, they began to understand it had captured something of themselves that was not expressed in their lives as now lived, but what had been lost – irredeemably.