“That’s the part I have never been able to get around.

I got out and I built a life and I have a studio and a view of the Sangre de Cristos and I am, by any measure you like, the healthy one.

And Sandra stayed in that state, and she has driven to Madisonville every second Sunday for thirty-one years, and I have never once gotten in the car.”

“That doesn’t make her — ”

“It doesn’t make her anything.

She’s still what she is.