After a day of playing in the snow

Candlelight

Peruvian rice with beans, hot sauce, and topped with a crispy fried egg

thinly sliced sweet potatoes

We made our new years resolutions [nothing cliche, please]

and then talked about our bodies: as women do:

what we like — the veins in my hand, my collarbones, my eyebrows or my mouth

[and dislike]

and then we accidentally talked about the children –

[I will cry when I see your children, and She'll be a little Josefina; you need to find another puertorriqueno...]

–we didn’t have yet.

Discussing our hypothetical futures [passionately]

we all got silent for a moment.

“I can’t see any of us being very subdued,” Sarah said.

We broke and began washing the dishes, knitting, bathtime, curled on the couch with a book, folding the laundry, taking out the trash.

She was right.

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