Carbon footprints

One day, not long after Voldemort upped and left, my sister, trying to cheer me up after a visit to a coffee shop we used to frequent, suggested that I look on the visit as erasing V’s carbon footprints.

At the time I wasn’t really ready to grasp that one. I was still in complete shock and denial; and ten years means a lot of memories and places to erase. But now I see the beauty of it: every time I go anywhere that I’d been with V, that memory gets washed away like footprints in the sand!

Of course the exercise is much easier now that I have someone to share it with, and he’s got footprints of his own to deal with too. Together on a mission to move onwards, The Man and I:

~ by harrietdg on July 24, 2008.