Jack Rooke

And when people sort of dalliance around it, you can't equip yourself with any autonomy when you're pretending like someone isn't here anymore.

It's like, no, let's own it.

There was another thing I remember writing when I was a kid about like the dinner table and about there being like an empty plate.

And I think we definitely had that for the first few years after it would be like.

who's going to sit in that chair?

That was dad's chair.

Let's just not sit in it at all.

And let's acknowledge it.

And now I think my brother just sits in it and doesn't think twice, which is kind of the beauty of grief is that, you know, the pain gets less and you forget and the new people come in and now there's like nieces and nephews and, you know, you fill the gap with new people.

Oh God, I think he would be like 73.

Very young still, I know.

Very young.

Yeah.

I wouldn't have thought you were a day past 56.

Thank you.

Not at all, anyway.

Yeah.

You've not had room service this morning, have you?

No, I haven't.

I've eaten nothing this morning.