David Sedaris

I just made them.

Yeah.

I guess you could call it brotherly love, but that's amazing.

But I had said in that piece that they were, you know, I thought of them as spinsters, you know, my sisters.

And did they like that term?

Well, they didn't mind it because they have good senses of humor, but then I found out you're only a spinster up until the age of 25.

After that, you're called a thornback.

Well, that's just not right.

And a thornback is a bottom-feeding, skate-like fish.

No.

And, you know, I read something about that on stage, and a woman came, a British woman, and said, I'm actually the one who...

She repopularized that term.

She was like a historian and she found that this was the term and she wrote an essay about it.

And then I don't know if I read that essay or if I read something that referred to it.

But yeah, they're thornbacks.

But genuinely, you know, I think you got married almost 10 years ago.

Was any part of that hard to keep a secret?

Not at all.

And it didn't bother Hugh?

No.