He never shouts, like me. He never throws himself on the floor, gnashing his teeth, biting carpets, and wailing like I do. His body does not spontaneously burst into an asteroid-sized flaming ball of elemental finger-pointing righteousness, like mine. He is rarely slighted, wounded, and never dramatically heart-broken with exploding theatrical and sacrificial love blood, as I am. (Daily.)
I may collapse, sobbing, overwhelmed, beaten, destroyed. But Dig is always dignified. He remains calm, even under the most emotionally stressful and difficult circumstances. He is a constant. He is rock. He is mountain block. He is granite. He is in Hong Kong.
I stare at his office floor.
I tidy up his paper trail. Just a little bit. Then a little bit more.
Suddenly everything is tidy. And the shredder is full.*
I have never seen granite when it explodes.
* Not really, Dig! Only kidding! About the shredder. Of course it is not full. (I emptied it. Twice.)
Not exactly ecstatic then Grit?! Just think you could have been over here visiting me and freezing your arse off!
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