And he said: “I’d have come.

If anybody had called me, I’d have been in the car in ten minutes.

I want you to know that I’d have come and I’d have sat in that corridor for two days.”

And then he got in his truck.

That is the entirety of what my father has said about the worst thing that ever happened to his daughter, and it is better than anything anybody else has managed, and I think about it about once a month.