maybe it wasn’t true that her family was chaotic and his family was proper, the biggest difference seemed to be the story, Hector’s family always had a story, a perfectly neat, organized story, with a beginning, middle and end, with a main character and an obstacle and an enemy, with a complicated Before and a happy After, and in their presence,

being an adult was all about not pointing out the obvious in situations where the obvious was too painful to take in.