The Age of Miracles

How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disapppointments, you finally arrived at an age when you had conceded nothing, when everything was possible.  

 I've become a collector of stories about unlikely returns: the sudden reappearance of the long-lost son, the father found, the lovers reunited after forty years.  Once in a while, a letter does fall behind a post office desk and lie there for years before it's finally discovered and delivered to the rightful address.  The seemingly brain-dead sometimes wake up and start talking.  I'm always on the lookout for proof that what is done can sometimes be undone.