My cousin and her husband.

Somebody’s children.

I stood in that hallway for about four seconds and made a decision that I have gone over many times and would make again.

I said, “Mom, can I talk to you in the study for a minute.”

Not in front of eleven people.

Not at the table, not with an audience, not the way it happens in the version of this that people enjoy.

Because I did not want a scene.