two people were allowed to know where their son was.
They took ten years off me. That is true and I will not be talked out of it.
I took two weeks off them, in a room with a shared bathroom, and those two weeks were the only two that were ever going to matter.
If you are holding something because somebody asked you to —
check, every so often, whether they are still the reason.
Because the day it stops being about them and starts being about what it does to somebody else, it is not a promise any more.
It is just a thing you have got that they want.
One last thing.
In the January, Leo asked me whether he could have the letter.
Not to read now. He said: when I’m older. He said it very carefully, the way he says things he has been working up
