And my daughter said, “It’s okay.

You don’t have to have a thing.”

Then Willa said, “Do you want to see Odie’s dress?

You can’t, she’d kill me.

But it’s really good.”

And Maren laughed — Willa says she laughed and then immediately stopped, like a person catching herself — and said, “No.

But thank you.”

And then she said: “I’m going to go and sit down at the back now, and I’m not going to talk to any of you today, and that’s on purpose.