That’s fine, sweetheart.”

“Not the library.”

“Where, then?”

And she said, “I don’t know.”

“What do you mean, you don’t know?”

And my seven-year-old daughter said the sentence that cancelled a flight, ended a marriage, and eventually put a sixty-eight-year-old man in a federal facility in Pennsylvania.

“She makes me lie down in the back seat first.

So I can’t see.”