I asked my sister on the second of July whether she would have the girls that weekend, and she said yes — and then I rang her back the next day and said I had changed my mind and that I wanted them with me.
That call exists. She reminded me of it in the December, laughing, as an example of me being soft about them.
And on the eighth I went and bought a sling.
Not for the trip generally. I had a sling. I bought a second one because the first is the wrong colour for a thing and because I wanted to be able to carry them both and still have a hand free.
And I have told myself that was practical, and it was.
And I stood in that terminalfor fifty minutes with a phone in the hand it freed up.
When I found out.
The twenty-third of April, 2025.
