You sent me away because you had built something that worked and I was going to be a variable in it, and you were exhausted and you could not take another variable, and that is completely human and I would have done exactly the same thing.

But it wasn’t for them.

It was for the system.

And the difference between those two things is the whole of what I think about now.

I left because I couldn’t be a function anymore.

And you stayed and became one, entirely, for fifteen years, and you were magnificent at it and it worked and six girls got raised.

And Emil — we both got rid of me for the same reason.

You just did the version that everybody claps for.