The next morning, Clara took the small floating shelf off the wall. She filled the holes with spackle. She painted over them. The shelf—along with Depois De Você —she placed on the regular bookshelf in the living room, between a cookbook and a history of Portuguese explorers.
Clara turned the last page. There was no epilogue. No tidy bow. Just a blank page, then the acknowledgments. Livro Depois De Voce Pdf
Clara’s breath caught. She looked around the room. Miguel’s fingerprints were everywhere: on the coffee mug with the chipped handle, on the frame of a photo from Óbidos, on the dusty volume of Pessoa she had never moved from the shelf. The next morning, Clara took the small floating