Willa Cather: We possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past

For Ántonia and me, this had been the road of destiny; had taken us to those early accidents of fortune which predetermined for us all that we can ever be. Now I understood that the same road was to bring us together again. Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.

     --Willa Cather (1873-1947), My Ántonia