Some of you heard it from me — and I want to be specific about that, because I’ve told it a lot.

I’ve told it at dinners.

I told it at my firm.

I told it to my husband’s mother the first time I met her, which in hindsight was quite a choice.

“And the version I’ve told has one sentence in it that isn’t true.

“I’ve said, for about fifteen years, that my mother left and never once tried to come back.

“That isn’t true.