Yet I couldn’t settle.

I kept wondering why Aaron needed to search my clothes to find household money.

Why Douglas couldn’t tell me what it was.

Why I was expected to accept the explanation without asking another question.

By then, I had begun questioning my own recollection of past arguments.

I wanted an independent record.

Something that didn’t depend on which of us sounded more reasonable afterward.

I purchased a small camera that could be concealed within a smoke-detector-style housing.