Nora

I had this one stupid goal for years and today I actually achieved it, so I can officially stop now. I met Nora Tschirner.

We talked, we laughed, we hugged. There are parts of my body I will never wash again. My friends kept me from completely forgetting how to speak while she was in front of me, which was the kind of help I needed.

It’s ridiculous to make a life achievement out of meeting someone, and I knew that even while it was happening. But you carry something like that for long enough and then it actually occurs and it’s both exactly what you thought it would be and sort of empty all at once. Doesn’t change anything. But you feel it in the moment, and then it’s just a thing that happened. You’ve got the photo. You shook her hand. That’s the whole thing.