likes wearing candy-apple red ([info]cette_vie) wrote,
@ 2009-10-22 20:18:00
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Current mood:thinking
Current music:As Tears Go By - The Rolling Stones

I actually cried when I read this.
From "A Rope and A Prayer", the fifth installation in a series by a New York Times journalist captured and held more than seven months by the Taliban.

The phone rang. This time, Kristen picked up.

“David?” she said, breathlessly. “David?”

“Kristen,” I said, savoring the chance to utter the words I had dreamed of saying to her for months.

“Kristen,” I said, “please let me spend the rest of my life making this up to you.”

“Yes,” she said. “Yes.”



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