"I love you".
Text message received sometime after midnight, last night.
"There you are, you little weasel."
My quiet (or did I speak it out loud, I don't remember, and often talk to myself) thought on seeing its sender before the message.
Somehow, in the fractions of seconds it takes between seeing the sender's name, and flipping open the phone to see the message, I realized it didn't really matter, not so critically, what the message said. That is, the most critical one had already been received, read in the ringtone and the name on the screen: "I still exist."
The rest is icing.
The rest can wait.