And I could have left two seventeen-week-old babies at my sister’s for two days.
And the answer is that the sentence does not work without them.
I wanted to surprise you so you could finally see your daughters.
Said by a woman holding two babies in a terminal.
I had that line. I had it before I booked the tickets, and I said it in that building exactly as I had it, and it is the line that makes the whole thing land, and every person who has heard this story has heard it.
And the forty tellings, which started that same evening.
On the Saturday night, in a hotel room at Vayle Harbour, with the girls asleep and Dinah in the next room, I rang my sister and gave it to her for about an hour.
And by the second telling, on the Sunday, it had the shape it has now.
