(M) Set the photograph aside. ... (F) Don't... lose it. ... (M) Let me remember... your eyes. ... (F) Your smile... ... (M) Your fingertips resting on my skin. ... (page turning) ... (M) Tiny cracks run through the paper. ... (F) Can you see them? ... (long silence) ... (M) Time keeps moving. ... (F) Too quietly. ... (M) Too brief our laughter. ... Too brief the quiet moments we called our own. ... (pencil scratching) ... (F) The colours... ... (M) ...fade. ... (F) A little more... ... (M) Each year. ... (long silence) ... (M) Memories grow softer. ... (F) Not smaller. ... (M) Only further away. ... (page turning) ... (M) I place the photograph between the pages of a book. ... (F) Safe... ... (M) For now. ... (cello harmonics) ... (M) Life keeps turning pages. ... (F) Until... ... (M) One quiet day... ... (F) You open the book. ... (M) And... ... (M + F) we find each other again. ... (tape hiss) ... (silence)
