April 20. “Button, could it be the umbilical cord connection that is the reason behind the fatal blow a mother experiences when her child hurts her?

Is it any different with adopted children!”

“I don’t have a clue. How could hurt differ between a mother and the child she’s given birth to and one she’s adopted? She’s her child after all!”

“I don’t know. I just thought that, maybe, it is.”

“Why are you suddenly asking this of me?”

“Just. By the way—what I feel we could do to make our dialogue even more interesting is to continue writing it when we have something really interesting to tell each other. So, on certain days—maybe not every single day—whoever from amongst the two of us has a juicy bit of news and wishes to share it with the other person should do so.”

“We could try it out for a while and see how it works.”

“Let’s do that.”