Fifty-One Hours
“Thea, every single day it got about a day bigger and he stayed exactly the same size.”
And then, at about ten at night, he gave me the real one.
It took him about four minutes to get out and he was not looking at me for any of it.
He said: “I wasn’t sure.
“That’s it.
That’s the whole thing.
Everything else I’ve said tonight is true and it’s not the reason.
“I sat in that meeting and they told me what the MRI showed and I believed them and I still believe them and I think I did the right thing.