And certainly not because he wanted to stand four feet from a man who was going to say, out loud, in front of all of them, that nobody would ever date me — and that somebody like him certainly never would.
He has told me that since, in four words, when I asked him straight out: It was the only door you'd left open.
He said it to the windscreen and not to me, which is apparently how everybody in this account says the important thing.
He did not bring that box for Ramsey.
Ramsey was incidental. Ramsey was the venue.
Abel needed a hundred people, a table, and a woman who could not say leave it — and that wedding supplied all three.
He brought it to a room where I could not say leave it, and he put it on a table, and he made me look in it in front of about a hundred people and two solicitors' worth of consequences.
