VII. The last time we were apart

Varanasi, where I was born; Zurich, where we met; Tafilalet, my first lab posting after we got our doctorates, and the mouth of the Moulouya, where you yelled in my ear with incomprehensible joy at seeing an Audouin's gull. Alcântara, where we sat for weeks in a hospital for decontamination before they would let us…