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Nora set her phone face up on Chris's kitchen table , because she did not trust herself to keep it in her pocket . Film night was that evening , and Sam had sent her a short message : not if it's up . The clip showed him asking a messy question after the last screening , and the town page had treated it like a show . Chris was proud of the post . " People are talking , " he said . " That is what we wanted . A real conversation , not a polite one . " " Sam will not come if his face stays there , " Nora said . " I want him in the room tonight . I want him to ask another messy question . I cannot get that from a page . " " If I take it down , it looks as if we are ashamed of him . " " If you leave it up , he is ashamed of himself , and he learned that from the comments , not from the question . " She turned the phone toward Chris . " Watch it with the sound off . " They watched . Sam leaned into the microphone , too close , and his hands did a small nervous dance that the camera liked more than his sentence . Without the sound , he looked like a boy being caught out . Chris's mouth tightened . " Now the comments , " Nora said . She did not read them aloud . She let him scroll . He stopped at one that repeated Sam's words in a mocking voice and added a laughing face . Chris had replied under that comment when it appeared , thanking people for joining in . He had not seen , or had not let himself see , what he was thanking . " I thought they were arguing about the film , " he said . " Some of them were . This one is not . " The kettle clicked off . Neither of them got up for it . Chris held the phone as if it had grown heavier . " If I delete it , the kind comments go too . " " Then the kind people can say those things to him in the room , " Nora said . " They know where we are . " He deleted the post . The page jumped , and the clip was gone , and for a second the empty space looked like a mistake he might undo . His thumb hovered . Nora did not speak . He locked the phone and slid it back to her . " Tell him the seat at the end is still his , " Chris said . " If he wants it . Don't tell him I was proud of the post . " Nora typed the first half of that , and not the second .
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