I know what you’ve had to do to get here.

I’ve read it.”

And I gripped Kevin’s hand until all the colour went out of my knuckles.

Part Twenty-One: Promise Me

“Swear to me you’ll be standing here when I come round.

Swear it.”

I need to say something about that sentence, because it is the one the whole thing turns on and because I have had people be very kind to me about it in a way I did not want.

Several people have told me that I should not blame myself for asking for a promise.