YES

Man: In four months I will say I love you and you will not say it back.

Woman: Give me time.

Man: In a year we will move in together.

Woman: I will ask you to move the furniture so I can paint the walls a different white.

Man: You will cheat on me with a man who has a wife.

Woman: I will be sorry. You will forgive me.

Man: I will ask you to marry me.

Woman: I will say yes.

Man: You look the most beautiful when you say yes.

Woman: Will we have children?

Man: We will have children and they will make you heavy and tired.

Woman: They will look like you.

Man: Say yes again. When you say yes you look the most beautiful. Like an early tulip, thick with frost.

RACHEL PELZ