It has a villain in it and you’re not it.”

I said something defensive.

And he said, “Sure.

Next week, then.

Tell me about the four minutes at the admin desk.”

Part Fifteen: Telling Leo

It took her four months, and she was right to take four months, and I want to be honest that in the second and third of those months I did not think so.

That period was the hardest sustained stretch of the whole thing, and it was hard in an ugly way that I am not proud of.