Two girls.

And in the car afterwards Kevin sat with both hands on the wheel and did not start the engine for a full four minutes, and when I asked him what he was doing he said: “I’m just having it.”

Then he said: “Two daughters.

Meg.

Two of them.”

Then he said: “I’m going to have to learn how to do hair.”

Part Eight: The Paint, the Cribs, the Stroller