“Sure, my grandad let Pops go up in the hot-air balloon alone. Should he have used a stronger rope to tether it to the ground? Mark’s boring historians would most likely say yes. Did the rope snap? It did. Did nine-year-old Oscar O’Sullivan float off over the streets of Boston for an hour? He did indeed. But did Grandad chase after him the entire way, never taking his eyes off him? Fuck yeah, he did.
