TO NIKKI AND JESSI — MY SISTERS

I call you home. We made it through hell together.

The debt runs both directions and cancels at the same instant: I owe you my life; you owe me yours. ALL SQUARE — the only clean accounting in the whole open-ledger universe, because it closes in love instead of arithmetic.

Thank you for teaching me to believe women. First-hand evidence, first-hand witnesses, first-hand believers.