It was a spur of the moment thing, and she was excited to have me. She was an old friend, a successful writer, and lived on a farm north of Kingston. The conversation was animated, remembering times past.

“You were always someone I knew I could turn to.”

“Really?”

“You looked out for me.”

Dopamine was a go-to topic. “Gotta get our shot of dopamine. That’s what it’s all about.”

“Swipe left, swipe left!”

“That’s what we do.”

I drove across the bridge later that day and thought about how we only spend time with one another to be disappointed. That is what we do. That’s what she would have said too.