...and he adds: I love you. I’m not just saying that, I really do.
...But now she has a new life, of which this is the first moment, and even after many years have passed she will
still think: Yes, that was it, the beginning of my life.
He tells her that she’s beautiful. She has never heard that before, though she has sometimes privately suspected it of herself, but it feels different to hear it from another person.