Thank you! I exercised a lot more patience with this story than I normally do. I wrote the draft, let it settle, did another pass, and repeated this process about five times. I'm pretty content with how it turned out. This is something I've wanted to write for about a year. I left a whole lot to the imagination between the farmer and the woman. They obviously had some kind of reconciliation after the encounter at the protest that led them to that cafe table. In my mind it happened online in a private message. Somehow they saw the humanity in each other and, I think, that's all that needs to happen.