The mother of one of Sam's former classmates came up to Anne in a health food store and asked, "'Is it true?'... in full-tilt, fake-concerned schadenfreude," Anne writes. "When Jax first arrived, and parents of Sam's friends would either tell me how great it was or ask how things were going, I would lapse into an embarrassed explanation – I'd say that I'd always longed to be a grandparent, but of course had thought it would be in another ten years or so.... but today I showed the woman in the health food store my most recent pictures of one of the handsomest babies anyone has ever seen, and one of Sam holding him, both of them looking like Gap models.... and as the mother oohed and aahed, I thought to myself, This is the single greatest.... thing that has ever happened to me."
