"They're for people I thought I'd never see again after months and months of being alone in this city," I explain. It goes unsaid that one of the crows is for Christina too. Not because she had died but because she had sill been lost to me, all the same. "For Tori and Will. Cara, Fernando."

Even Al. He had been my friend once upon a time.

"I got the first crows for my family. It made sense to keep going."