As any parent knows. I don’t believe it -- that people who had children before the lottery didn't love them as much as we love ours. It's a very mammalian experience. I don't believe they were as casual about the loss of a child as people say.

JS: They could not be casual and still not feel it as deeply as we do.

MS: Anyway, I only see one woman in your picture. She's lying back with her knees up. She's just drifting off to sleep. Something is nagging at her, something she can't remember, but should have done. She's going to dream about cooking. In her dream she'll make a cake without any instructions or help from the kitchen. It will be a wonderful cake and anyone who tastes it will have a wonderful dream. She'll wake up before she can take a bite, realizing that that's the thing she forgot to do.

JS: Good. Got you again. You’re very fluent with stories.

MS: I suppose that comes from my mother. It’s a useful parenting talent. The-about-to-throw-a-tantrum-in-the-store story. The here-we-are-on-a-long-boat-ride story. That perennial classic, the you’re-not-tired-but-I-am-so-I-want-you-to-go-to-sleep story.

I see where we made our mistake, you know. We all should have gone to