About three or four months into our conversations, I learned an important lesson: ask him about everything at least twice, if not three or four times, because new details would almost always emerge. When they did, I’d gasp and say, “Juan, you never told me that!” Unfailingly he’d reply, “Well, you never asked.” Eventually, Juan told his sister that this project was like a pregnancy that grew slowly over time. But in this case, he added, rather than nine months, the embarazo might last a few years.
