"Sometimes, yeah," Joe answered. And that was maybe one of the best things about Dale. Like Joe understood that Dale was never gonna forget the woman who'd died, Dale understood that Joe would never forget Billy. There was always going to be a part of each of them that belonged to someone else and it worked.

"He and Billy were friends, y'know?" he asked, hoisting himself up over a rock. "So, yeah, sometimes we talk about him."