The first time you did something for the last time. In, “The Cranes”, by Peter Meinke, it indicates that the couple was at the marshes along the Gulf for their last moments, when spotting two whooping cranes. Throughout the story it showed us the similarities between the two couples and the love for each other.
In “The Cranes”, the man pronounced “I’ve seen enough birds. But whooping cranes they’re rare. Not many left.” The author is trying to symbolize that both the whooping cranes, and the couple were very rare (many people don’t have that type of bond from one another), and shared eternal love for one another. Considering the last line of “The Cranes”, At the shot, the two cranes