Terminal Four
The versions were worse than the truth.
One of them — and I know this because a general manager in Savannah told me to my face, because she is a person who does that — was that I had a second family in Florida.
The third attempt was Priya’s.
She made me do it on a video call, live, to everybody, in about ninety seconds, without notes, and she made me include one sentence I did not want to include.
What I said was: my former partner and I have two children who are five years old.
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