four pegs

there are those people in your life that will do the most subtle things but shake your rails.
and you'll remember those subtles, those shared sentiments for your whole life. and some share so many of these kinds of thing with you that while you may forget the individual parts, the gravity created by the collection becomes everything you are.

i was playing mastermind with my daughter. i did pretty well on the first go, i think maybe i got it on the sixth row?  not sure. we played a couple more times and overall i won every round (with two rounds receiving hints from the mastermind herself - good ones too, meaning she didn't give too much away).
but it was this one time that hit me like the universe influences the earth.

i figured out that the pattern was four red pegs.  i was lucky and chose mostly red early on as a way to eliminate some other colours i had initially chosen.  i got the answer in four rows.  but, she pointed out to me, as she was putting them away(getting ready for the next round), that she picked four red because red is usually what people colour hearts with and she chose them because she loves me.