...how a single misplaced letter can unravel me into stitches of laughter and then, just as fast, a peculiar kind of sorrow that leaves my jaw aching. it’s that familiar twitch just behind my left ear again, the one that signals the whole internal landscape is about to flood. there’s a strange, almost satisfying ache in my chest from feeling it all at once, the ridiculousness and the tenderness tangled up like old string. it just keeps coming, this impossible current.