I perched on the edge of a worn chair, nose twitching at the dust that rose from my shifting on the worn upholstery, and tried to shake the feeling I knew this man and his partner from somewhere.

Weird how they seemed to parallel others in my life, though the fact they were a man/ woman team like Reena and Mathias wasn't lost on me. It was more so the feeling of him, of both of them, like they were people I used to know or had ties to the ones I loved most while not having any ...