[Two birds with one stone, then; the way he leans means she can lean back even once she's fixed his name in her phone. More contact is always better, right? Right.]

No-- my brother was. We were still back and forth a lot when I was little, but I was born in Chicago. [Which, in her opinion, was the better end of the stick.] My mother was-- nervous, I guess, about me having been born here. Like the second passport was diluting my roots more, you know?