May 28
I listened to Ordinary by Alex Warren, and it triggered a kin memory.
A while after Keigo and I started dating, I started giving him random stones, rocks, and pieces of sea glass. He always put them in a little container. And one day, when he came home after work, he said:
"I gotta show you something!"
And he revealed a silver chain that had been dotted with the stones and sea glass pieces.
"Does this look familiar?"
I remember crying in immense joy. He not only kept what I had given him; he'd had them made into something he could carry with him. He understood what those little gifts meant. He understood the assignment. No one up to that point had ever done that before...
God, I'm tearing up even now, just thinking about it.