Ferraro asked me, in the March of 2026, what I would have needed to hear from her.

And I had an answer ready, because I had been composing it for eighteen months, and it is nineteen words long.

You were on the floor for twenty-three minutes and I knew you were there and I stayed on the telephone.

Not sorry.

There is no sorry in it anywhere.

Just the sentence, in the right order, with both facts in it.

And Dr.