People asked for her, not for me, and it made me small inside, and my own mother knew exactly how to use that.

When she handed me a lie that made your mom the villain instead of me, I took it, because it was more comfortable than looking at myself.

That’s the whole reason.

There isn’t a better one.”

“Why did it take you four years to open a banking app?”

“Because opening it would have ended the story where I was the one who’d been wronged,” he said.