it was all electricity , a terrible current , like looking into the future , everything prefigured-a life together , a daughter , a mortgage , a son born two months premature , the death of jack 's mother , an automobile wreck that would take deanna 's parents on thanksgiving night eight years from now , moments of indescribable happiness , long winters of depression , a slow drifting , a betrayal , fear , anger , compromise , stasis , but when it all lay stripped to the bone , whatever mysterious alchemy had been present in this moment , would be present always .