They knew each other for more than twenty years. They fell in love, parted, then fell in love again. They married abroad, thinking they had plenty of time to slowly make up for all they had missed.
But bone-deep pain waits for no one.
One of them went from taking one painkiller to five, while the other kept rereading the messages on their phone, thinking the other simply didn't feel like talking that day.
After all that waiting, what arrived was a plane ticket to Switzerland.