An Answer
He had taken the photo just a few hours earlier. In the photo, Valerie was posing inside one of the record stores they visited that day. Right behind her stood a black-and-white album cover, but it didn’t mean much to Joel.
It was Nirvana’s ‘Bleach’, but why had this album gotten such a surprising response from her? Joel eventually managed to get her to calm down, and he finally got the answer to his question.