The Crate in the Parking Lot
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.