And she said: “Yes.

I could have made your mother file it.

I could have sat her down and made her fill the form in herself, in my office, in front of me, and taken it to Ron with her standing there.

“I thought about it twice.

And both times I decided it would make my working relationship with that office harder, and that I’d need that office for the next kid.

“I have had a long time to think about that trade and I still do not know the answer, and I am not going to pretend to you that I do.”