Pablo Torre

Sarah Spain, hello.

And the other thing is to do a thing that is cruel, which is to say there is a twist in this story, which we're not going to give away because we're trying to be good at telling stories.

But holy f*** it.

And now that story is a book, which is why you are here with us today.

It is coming out.

It is called Runs in the Family.

What's the metaphor that you choose to use to describe the process of birthing this?

Yeah, I should say, I mean, to quote Tony Kornheiser about his own hands, these fingers don't really type anymore.

Yeah, that whole thing about how you are not burdened by the neurosis of writing.

I, for those not familiar, was making my paragraphs into like perfect symmetrical rectangles before I gave myself permission to write the next paragraph.

You, it turns out.

I'm seeing you for that.

And you have not helped.

I didn't know Dillon before the Super Bowl with the Chiefs, in which it was like, oh, that's the guy who has been coaching, you know, Damian Williams, where they are just like scampering all over the field.

So I just need you to know that what we're going to do with this today might seem like a story about a running backs coach at this point.

A coach whose job, if you were not familiar, is basically devoted to teaching a running back how to shrug off and fight off all of the people who are desperately trying to stop them from moving forward as much as one single yard.

But this story is about more than that.

This story is also about a running back.

a running back whose entire identity was a mystery.

Because thanks to the laws in our country, as we will discuss, adoption as a concept way too often entails mystery.