“She’s not my kid, Zoey.” “I mean, I would hope not, because you would have been way too young to even have sex—” “It’s not too young. I was thirteen the first time I had sex.” That stuns me a little. “You were having sex when you were 13?” His enlightening response is a shrug. “We don’t all wait until we’re growing gray hair, Ellis. That’s just you.”

