“You’ve ‘never been’ to London.” “No.” “Ever?” “Never,” I said, pausing long enough to satisfy him that I’d tried to change this fact about my personal history upon his second query and was very sorry I’d failed. “Ava,” he said, “that’s incredible.” “Why?” “It’s such a short flight from Dublin.” I was disappointed in me, too. He’d never been to Ireland, but it would have been redundant to tell him it was also a short flight that way.
