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Delaney: this is going to be incredible

It was incredible.

By the end of the first day I had more voice memos than I could count and the full interior life of my kid laid out for me like evidence. I’d set it up to catch an emergency. What it caught was everything, because to Iris everything was of equal and maximum importance, which was either a flaw I’d have to coach out of her or the best part of her, and I hadn’t decided and was in no hurry to.

Iris: the hotel has a pool inside. inside the building. Daddy. inside.

Iris: there’s a man who brings food on a cart. you tell him and he brings it. any food. I had pancakes at night!

Iris: Mommy doesn’t know the trick for the booster. I showed her. she said I’m smart. I am smart.

Delaney texted me on the side.

Delaney: she sent me the pool one four times

Iris: Gerald likes the hotel. he’s never seen a pool inside. he’s shook.

Iris: D are you there. D. this is Iris. over.

Delaney: she said over

Delaney: I am going to lie down

I was in my own kitchen at nine on the second night listening to my daughter narrate the inside of a hotel ice machine, leaning on the counter I’d wiped because there was nothing else to wipe, in a house so quiet the refrigerator’s hum filled the kitchen, and Delaney was down the hall in the casita with her own copy of the same broadcast, and twice her laugh carried through the wall at one I hadn’t gotten to yet, out loud, alone, at a kid reviewing an ice machine, and I stood there and listened for the next one instead.

Cole found me in the team chat on the third night. Nobody ever got away from the team chat.

Cole: how’s bachelor week going. you doing okay over there

Cole: kid’s gone, nanny’s home, big empty house

Cole: lot of rooms

Kasperi: he’s eating cereal standing up over the sink. I can see it

Kasperi: I can always see it

Griffin: leave him alone, his daughter’s with her mom, that’s hard