And the rest of the visit wasn’t even that bad; it could even be called enjoyable. For once, it was Kiki and Naomi doing the babysitting. Maura could hang out with her other family, and somewhere in the intervening years, when she’d married and had a child and become an adult, she learned wasn’t the baby anymore. It was a little sad, of course, and Max would probably always try to get her drunk and take her to rated-R movies (as they did the last night of the visit), but in all it was just…nice. She found Natalie getting along frighteningly well with Uncle Carlos and Tommy, and Camilla just fell in love with her “Aunties Naomi and Kiki.”
But four days later, Maura and Natalie once again found themselves calming a fussy baby on a cross-country plane as the big metal creature descended into
