"Are you going to visit your aunt?" asked Carol. The orange sky signaled that night was coming, and the first lanterns began to be lit along the paved road that surrounded the university, along which they always walked after classes had finished for the day.

"I'd rather not!" answered Jeff. "But . . . I have a family get-together. You know . . ."

Enrique wished he could recall his own family gatherings more clearly. He had taken those moments for granted, and now he longed to experience them again.

"It's important to see your family. If mine were closer I'd go to see them too," said Emma, who was walking alongside Enrique, behind Jeff and Carol.

Emma's relatives were also far away. Not as far as Enrique's, but she clearly felt the same way he did.