3 Sep 2024 Personal

To Brian in the chair

London — The first time I saw the chair again, after that first morning three years ago, at least one eye instinctively welled a tear. In Heathrow’s Virgin lounge, Terminal 3, it’s the chair to which your eyes drift when cresting the foyer, looking out across a pit of refined businessmen sipping coffee, along with a few Alabamians ordering the…