The crowd. The kiss. What he said about men. And then: look to your right.
And then the pause, which everybody fills in themselves.
And there is one line I have never varied, and it is the one that does the work.
I only found out standing in that terminal.
I have said that, in some form, about forty times. To my sister. To four women at the baby group. To the solicitor, who did not need it. To a neighbour in a shop in the December.
And it is the only untrue sentence in the whole of my account, and it is the load-bearing one.
Because a woman who finds out in a terminal and produces that line on the spot is magnificent.
And a woman who found out in April and booked two flights in June is something else, and I do not have a word for it that I am willing to write down.
