‘If you think about something for long enough,’ she explained, ‘more than likely, that thing will happen.’ She tapped her head. ‘It’s all in the mind.’ My mother believed that if you prayed for something long enough it happened. I asked Elsie if that was the same thing. ‘God’s in everything,’ she said thoughtfully, ‘so it’s always the same thing.’ I had a feeling my mother would disagree, but she wasn’t there, so it didn’t matter.
