“Mom, say them.”

And my mother said: “She came to the house.

In the February.”

February 2014.

Carmen would have been about five months along.

“She stood on the porch.

She had an envelope and she said she’d rather not do it on a doorstep and could she come in, and I said you weren’t there, which was true, and she said she knew, she’d come to see me.

“And I didn’t let her in.”

“You didn’t let her in.”

“I stood in the door and she stood on the porch and she told me she was pregnant and that it was yours and that she wanted you to know.