" Does it go away?" she asks. " Missing each other?" I think about how much I missed Maman. I still do, though it isn´t as acute as it once was. " A little bit," I whisper." Enough so that life continues. In a year you won´t even think about me. " She turns around in my arms and looks up at me, tugging at a strand of my hair. " don´t say stupid things, Sahar. You´re smarter than that. "