And I have to tell you how much I did not want to say yes to that.

Everything in me wanted to say no.

Not out of pride exactly.

It was something more animal and more stupid than pride, which was that she was mine and she was making that noise and the noise was for me, and there is a part of a woman’s brain that in that moment will not accept the involvement of a third party on any grounds whatsoever.

And I could not lift her.