Fifteen and a Half Inches
One page.
Eleven boxes.
Name, member number, date of the denial, what is being appealed, and a space of about four inches for a reason.
Page five was a list of free assistance: the state’s health insurance consumer assistance programme, a legal aid line, and the state’s protection and advocacy agency for people with disabilities, which exists in every state, which is federally funded, which does exactly this, and which neither of Maya Lin’s parents nor I had ever heard of.
Sixty days from the fourteenth of March is the thirteenth of May.