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Not one question.
He had a plan, and I knew he had a plan, because he has been a boy with a plan since he was six, and I did not ask him what it was, and there was a week in which one question from me would have stopped the whole thing.
Maya asked.
Maya was sixteen and she asked him in the hallway on the way out, and she has told me exactly what she said, which was: “Are you going to do something dumb?”
And Julian said, “No.”