““Come on, Tony!” a woman shouted. “Make the clear!” Adam didn’t have to be told that the woman shouting was Tony’s mother. Had to be. When a parent calls out to her own child, you can always tell. There is that harsh ping of disappointment and exasperation in their voice. No parent believes they sound this way. Every parent does. We all hear it. We all think that only other parents do it but that magically we are immune. An old Croatian proverb Adam had learned in college applied here: “The hunchback sees the hump of others—never his own.” Three””
