...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents. - Jhumpa Lahiri

"You got cats at home?"
"No cats. Only a husband."

What does a word mean? And a life? In the end, it seems to me, the same thing. Just as a word can have many dimensions, many nuances, great complexity, so, too, can a person, a life. Language is the mirror, the principal metaphor. Because ultimately the meaning of a word, like that of a person, is boundless, ineffable.

I owed the greater apology, but at the same time I knew that was done was done, that no matter what I said now I would never be able to make it right.