"I met Chris in the college bar in 1997. I was part of a group of visiting American students visiting the University of Oxford we kept ourselves to ourselves in the first few weeks of term and he leaned over from the next table to talk to me. I saw his one-dimpled smile and the cocky way he tipped his chair back on two legs and I thought: Uh-oh, here's trouble."
"After graduation, I moved to London to do an MA and also mostly to be near Chris. Then I moved to New York to work in publishing, and a year later he joined me to work for an American bank. We rented a place together and lived the life of childless twentysomethings in Manhattan: long working hours, long drinking hours, long summer weekends in a shared house on Fire Island."
The narrator met Chris at Oxford in 1997 and they quickly became a couple despite limited time at university. They maintained a long-distance relationship while finishing degrees, celebrated milestones together, and relocated for postgraduate study and careers. The couple lived together in Manhattan as childless twentysomethings, balancing long work hours, social life, and summer weekends on Fire Island. Differences in background and temperament—one expressive and analytical, the other reserved and occasionally dour—created tensions but did not end the relationship. On the morning of 11 September 2001, the narrator watched the first plane hit the World Trade Center on television in their Flatiron apartment.
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