She is also, at thirteen months, the loudest child in the building.
And the aunt, who started all of it in 2019 and who nobody has mentioned once.
Her name is Dilys and she is Moira's younger sister and she is seventy-one.
She was diagnosed properly in the June of 2019 — late, in her sixties, after a kidney problem that had been put down to something else for about fifteen years.
And she did the thing nobody in that family had ever done, which is tell people.
She rang her nieces and nephews. All six of them. She told them what it was called and where to go and what the odds were, and she wrote it down and posted it to the two who did not pick up.
Edan went to Thrale in the September of 2019 because a woman of sixty-four made six phone calls.
I have met her twice since the October. The second time, in the March, at her house, I asked her whether she had ever wondered why he never said anything to me.
