What I had not done was put them next to each other on the same page.

On Thursday morning, before work, I called Mason.

I want to say that I had a plan.

I did not have a plan.

I had a bad night behind me and I made the call from my car in the driveway at 7:15 with no idea what I was going to say, and what came out was the first thing available.

“Mason, hey.