Andy Laats

It's pure.

And I know when we're there, they continue to feel their mother's love.

It is a gift to have this opportunity to connect like this with my kids.

A gift given to me by Liz at an incredibly high price.

do shit that I do not want to squander.

And I know if I can achieve it, I know that my kids too will continue to feel their mother's love if I can pass this gift to them.

And I do have a whole vignette written about the pickup from after school, but I just, I chopped it because I was, I wrote too much.

Yeah, so good.

That's encouraging.

I was kind of more timeline worried.

And you don't think it's like to the death and dying stuff isn't too dark?

No?

Yeah, so the idea of talking about it, and Liz did write sort of detailed operating instructions like you would do a babysitter for the first time.

And, you know, she recruited the aloe moms, right?

to not just help me, but to be there for the kids.

But I think there was a lot left unsaid, right?

Unsettled and unknown when she left about, wait a minute, you know, this is my core identity and now it's not.

Like this was a critical piece to my kids' life and now they're not gonna have it.

Like what happens next?

And what I wrote was like, okay, I'm supported, I'm prepared and I'm shocked, right?