 And I think that's what a little bit made me into a writer, the idea that you could be close enough to observe, close enough to love, and still know that you are a separate entity. So I didn't grow up like this. I grew up in Brooklyn. My father still lived on Long Island, and he lived in a place like Middle Rock, and then he moved to the town he was from, which is Great Neck, which is perhaps a very close,