“Nobody in this is asking you to pay a debt.

There is a seven-year-old who needs a slow introduction to an adult.

Those are different tasks, and only one of them is about him.”

In the meantime, I met him twice.

The first time was on a Saturday in the middle of January at a place with go-karts and an arcade and a menu of fried things, which Jessi chose specifically because it is loud and full of people and requires nothing of anybody.

I was introduced as her friend Ivan.