I laughed at that.
“He kept smiling every time someone got on because this little kid across from him was trying to pronounce the station names. At one point the kid asked him if ‘Massachusetts’ was the longest word in the world.”
“He said, ‘Only if you’re six.’”
She laughed again as though the moment were happening in front of her.
I had not seen her so animated in a long time. Stormy was normally careful about letting anyone close, so her excitement immediately caught my attention.