“I’m saying it here because here is where I said the other thing.

About forty of the people I told are in this room.

It didn’t seem right to correct it quietly.

“That’s it.

That’s the whole of what I wanted to say.”

And then she looked down the room at the back left, where a woman in a navy dress was sitting.

And she said — and this is the part I would put on a wall if you could put a thing like this on a wall —

“Mom.