QUOTE : She rested her elbow on the bar and looked at me. “Tell me,” she said. “What would you have wished for if you had been in my position?”<br />“On the night of my twentieth birthday, you mean?”<br />“Uh-huh.”<br />I took some time to think about that, but I couldn’t come up with a single wish.<br />“I can’t think of anything,” I confessed. “I’m too far away now from my twentieth birthday.”<br />“You really can’t think of anything?”<br />I nodded.<br />“Not one thing?”<br />“Not one thing.”<br />She looked into my eyes again—straight in—and said, “That’s because you’ve already made your wish.