Excerpt in the window of print: The only three men I had ever imagined a future with all told me that something was missing, and I had let their words haunt me for years, scouring my memories of us for flaws.
Note:
(a)
(i) This is Oz Johnson's personal website.
https://ozjohnson.com/
(master's thesis: Sarah Oz Johnson, Making Urban Progress Legible; The role of territorial social indicators in the new economy. Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT, 2018.
undergrad essay: Sarah Johnson, Breaking the Watch with the Wedding Glass; Conceptions of time in the transition from biblical to rabbinic Judaism. Stanford University, 2006 (one of The Boothe Prize Essays that year).
(ii) Oz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oz
(may refer to: Land of Oz. Click it and the new Wiki page shows a map and says, "Oz is roughly rectangular in shape, and divided along the diagonals into four countries."
(b) "he sent me a video of himself playing Ludovico Einaudi's 'Nuvole Bianche' on the piano, followed by an invitation to New York for a live performance."
(i) Ludovico Einaudi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludovico_Einaudi
(1955- ; Italian; "His composition 'Nuvole Bianche' was featured in the film Insidious (2010)")
(ii) Italian-English dictionary:
* nuvola (noun feminine; plural nuvole): "cloud" https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nuvola
* bianco (adjective masculine singular; feminine singular bianca; masculine plural bianchi, feminine plural bianche, superlative bianchissimo): "white" https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bianco
(3) Steve Patschke, The Kids' Table. (in the weekly mini column "Tiny Love Stories").
full text: "On Thanksgiving, there aren't as many of us adults as there used to be. We hold places in our hearts for our deceased family members, those of the oldest generation.
Now, our kids, who are far from being children anymore, outnumber us. They gather around the big table (the 'adults' table'), talking about celebrities in terms we know nothing about.
We sit quietly at the small table (formerly the 'kids' table'), smiling to each other at the passage of time, in awe of how the Tables have turned.
Note: The photo that came with it shows just three persons. The photo is not a close-up ("close-up" can be a noun or an adverb, but not an adjective. Per merriam-wbster.com). So it is hard to tell whether the three are mother and two teenage daughters, or three daughters.