Trip to France.

In France Dylan's water tunnelling behaviour began to resemble a reflex action, with neural pathways built to make endorphins. Whenever Daddy tried to carry Dylan past a favourite water slide, Dylan would struggle unthinkingly to climb it, like a heroin addict.

These French slides are big like the ones in Manteca, California. Dylan went down a particularly huge slide eight times in a row, insisted on going alone the ninth time, hurt his leg, and then waited an entire fifteen minutes before recovering to make a tenth trip. He was not in control of himself; the endorphins controlled him.

Later, in a hotel room, Daddy told Mommy that he knew how to open the window because he is American. (In France and America people use the same kind of window.) Dylan overheard Daddy and said, 'I'm American, too!' We had not recently discussed Dylan's nationality with him and were surprised he was aware of it.