She said: “You’re protecting him.”

And I said: “I’m protecting Auggie.

Those aren’t the same and you know they aren’t.”

And she said: “Thea, he had two years of everybody thinking he was some poor devastated man.

Two years of people bringing him casseroles.

I’m not allowed to be angry that nobody knows?”

And I said the thing I had worked out in a car on the way up, and it is the only argument that has ever worked on my sister.

I said: “Vesna, if you blow it up, he becomes a man who was destroyed on the internet.