““Well, does it make sense to you?" He said, "It doesn't have to, it's something that happens. It's like seeing a person you never saw before - you could be passing on the street - and you look at each other..." Karen was nodding. "You make eye contact without meaning to." "And for a few moments," Foley said, "there's a kind of recognition. You look at each other and you know something." "That no one else knows," Karen said. "You see it in their eyes." "And the next moment the person's gone," Foley said, "and it's too late to do anything about it, but you remember it because it was right there and you let it go, and you think, What if I had stopped and said something? It might happen only a few times in your life." "Or once," Karen said.””