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“You didn’t die,” I offer

“Nope”

“Was it awfully dangerous?”

He smiles a bit “A little”

“How old were you?”

“I was nineteen…alh school”

“That’s a year off?”

He nods “It had been a dream of mine since I was a kid”

I think of kid Declan drea a mountain I remind myself to ask later about photos of wee Sailor Perhaps there are some on his phone “Who ith you?”

“This guy from my class, Farhad We didn’t really like each other that much, but we both wanted to do it”

“At the end, did you care more for one another?”

He smiles “Oh yeah We still keep in touch He cli now”

“That’s possible?”

“If you’re fucking crazy” He s his chest

“Do you have photos? Of the summit?”