I had thought something about myself initially made her talk so honestly, but that was who she was. She was genuinely so earnest and open. “You need to nudge me. Or we need to establish a code word when I start to go too far,” she said. “Absolutely not.” I couldn’t help my chuckle. She had completely turned my mood around. I had been dreading every moment of that interaction, and by the end, I wanted to pull up a chair with some popcorn.
