Shortened this breathtaking passage for brevity. Sorry Ruth, I think I also just fell in love with your husband.

“He shared a party line with three other island households, but he would wait until the middle of the night, when no one else was using the telephone, to send daily dispatches with the subject line missives from the mossy margins…He translated the vast, wild, Pacific Rim ecosystem into poetry and pixels, transmitting them all the way to her small monitor in Manhattan, where she waited, leaning into the screen, eagerly reading each word with her heart in her throat, because by then she was deeply in love.”