She said: “Because Mami would have taken her coat off.”

I said I did not understand.

And Perla said: “She’d have come in and taken her coat off and sat down and unwrapped her and she’d have said Perlita, what is this, and then she’d have looked at Curtis.

In my kitchen.

And she’d have asked him.

“And I could not be in a room where my mother asked my husband that question.”

8:20 a.m. She searches on her phone.