Fifteen minutes later, I was sitting in HBO’s posh screening room waiting for The Normal Heart to start, my eyes still glued to my phone for a text from Kit or a call from Davis. I then decided to kill more time by checking my email and was startled when a new one from Kit appeared with the subject line “Holy Shit!” I took a deep breath and opened it. The first thing I saw was a close-up image of the inside of our toilet bowl accompanied by the following caption: “Normals at the bottom. Guinness record on top!!!! Thanks for the coffee!!! I feel great!” I let out a spontaneous, happy sigh of
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