Here is how we do it now.

The third of March is Auggie’s.

Entirely.

Whoever has him that week does the party and the other one comes for two hours and there is no ceremony and nobody says anything about anything.

It is a birthday for a small boy and it has a theme and this year the theme was, inevitably, refuse collection.

And the fourth of March is Linus’s, and we do not share it.

That was my condition and Davis agreed to it in the mediation without argument, and I think — I am fairly sure — that he was relieved.