Barrexerka: ‘Patatekin’

(in Basque)

You’re 54 years old. A class reunion dinner—your first in a long time. It’s 8 p.m., and you’ve had three mixed drinks. In the haze of the evening, you’ve forgotten which people you haven’t seen in a while you actually like and which ones you don’t. You’ve gotten nostalgic. Do you remember how you used to act in the schoolyard? Or what those first Kilometroak runs together were like? No, you don’t remember them very well either—at least not all of it… Nostalgia gives way to courage, and you find the courage to do something you never would have done before.