The twins are fine.

Willa hasn’t answered.”

Willa hasn’t answered.

My youngest daughter had not answered, in a group text about her own mother, and her oldest sister had counted that as neutral, and I sat in a car in Sacramento and did not ask one single question about it.

Then I made my actual argument, which was the only real one I had, and it took about four minutes and it was the best I could do.

I said: “Odie.