She thought that was extremely funny.

She has repeated it to about four people.

I want to end on the smallest thing I have, because it is the one that actually tells me where we are.

We drive a lot.

School, Tuesdays at four, the pool, a friend’s house out past the parkway.

Probably forty minutes a day, most days, two people in a car.

For about a year I could not stop checking the mirror.

Not consciously, at first.