Ari has decided he is fine. Rune is suspicious of him in a way I find secretly hilarious. Kit asked him, in December, in a soft play centre, whether he was going to stay this time — five years old, with no idea what he was saying — and Teo had to go and stand outside.
We are not getting back together.
I have been asked eleven times and the answer does not change. There is a version of this that ends on a pavement with everybody crying and it is not this one.
Lucien Barr was interviewed in January in connection with the 2020 concealment and I do not know where that goes and I am not permitted to comment.
And the last thing, which is the thing he said on the plane.
You didn't take a dollar.
He came to my door on the twentieth of December — the only time he has been in my house — and stood in the hall and said he wanted to explain why that sentence had come out of him at thirty-five thousand feet.
