I had memorized it.

I did try once.

I want that on the record, because I have spent four years listening to people ask why I never said anything, and the answer is that I did, once, in year four, and I learned what it cost.

It was after a Thanksgiving.

Gertrude had done the thing she did, which was to look at Paige’s daughter on her lap and say, to the table, “There’s nothing like it.

Nothing in the world.