I wanted to tell him to stop worrying because our Amish neighbors didn’t care about him enough to plot against him, but I think the paranoia made him feel important in a world that said he wasn’t. Why do you have to believe that the government mistakenly put you on the terrorist watch list for you to feel good about yourself? I wanted to say. You’re important to me. Isn’t that enough? Instead, I occasionally told him I heard a clicking noise during a call so he could think maybe someone had bugged the phones.
