At 10:45, the telephone rang and I picked it up mid-ring. Sue asked me what I wanted and why it was so urgent. "Okay. I'm going to ask you to do something that's crazy. You can say no, now, or at any time. I want you to be completely comfortable with this." "What?" she asked, "I can hardly turn something down before I know what it is." I took a deep breath. "Well, Sean's coming into town early next month, and we had a long discussion today about something that kind of scares me, but makes me completely bonkers."