the fact that Abby saved Mommy’s life in that duck pond, the fact that if she hadn’t gotten Mommy out of the pond, or if their mom hadn’t massaged Mommy’s arm every day for six months when she was a baby, Mommy might not have survived and gotten married and I might never have been born, and then my poor kids wouldn’t ever have existed and Leo would have had to shack up with somebody else, and I would never have known my mom,
