"And I wouldn't have said it unless I thought we could do it".
Of course, I wouldn't have based my career in the voluntary sector unless I thought charities were capable of achieving genuine change.
I wouldn't put a horse through that kind of pressure for nothing, I wouldn't risk their health or my own unless I thought it meant something.
"I would personally want to stay away from it unless I thought I had some killer product that I thought was going to be a devastating winner," Mr. Mace said.
I wonder what he would think if he knew that unless I thought of him I felt nothing at all while having sex, I went through the motions, I was very convincing, and that when I did think of him the pleasure was so intense it was breathtaking.
So I wouldn't have told Jack's story unless I thought his trip (from the lost domain of the cosy mother-baby bond, to the much bigger, crazier, lonelier universe outside) could stand for the journey we all have to make, though over decades rather than days.
