Very good! Its hard to follow “just kids” however i think this was also a very well written book. I found the “epilogue of an epilogue” rather interesting, in it Smith wrote how she wished to blur the line of fiction and non-fiction in her book and I believe she did just that by combining her dreams and fantasies with the impending coronavirus outbreak. Beautiful book.

“I commenced with my chores, whistling an oft forgotten tune, certain that we, as the seasons, prevail and that then thousand years is yet a blink in the eye of a ringed planet or that of a or that of an archangel armed with a sword of glass.”

“Passing the mural, I nodded to the yiddish fiddler, commiserating an unspoken fear of friends slipping away.”

A beautiful story of love and purity through the most unloveable and impure times. Thank you Patti and Robert for sharing your journey of such a sterling young companionship in the busy days of NYC.

“It took an extralong time for me to lace my boots, find my gloves, my cap. Robert stood grinning, watching me moving in circles.”

“When we drove back to the city, both of us agreed we had found kin, each as alien as the other.”