] Then we sat in front of the computer for a few hours and
] I made her a playlist of more songs she had loved as a
] small girl, the ones she'd remembered and the ones she'd
] forgotten, which led to our having The Conversation. You
] know, the one I've known was coming for the last
] almost-nineteen years.
]
] I dragged songs from her childhood over to the playlist
] -- "Barcelona" and "Nothing Compares 2 U" and "I Don't
] Like Mondays" and "These Foolish Things" and then came
] Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side". "You named me from
] this song, didn't you?" said Holly as the first bass
] notes sang. "Yup," I said.