The summer I met you, I was spending all of my time trying to erase the speckles from robins' eggs.

You'd always ask me why, and I'd never have a real answer.

So I'd say: "Equality is more important than beauty. Even in nature."

You never said so, but I could tell you disagreed.

I went through a lot of eggs that summer, and I never got those spots to go away.

Some things, you just can't change.

Thank god.