And twice in those twenty-five minutes, when he looked at me, I nodded.

One thousand one hundred and eighty-nine dollars and fifteen cents returned by cheque, which I put in an account in his name, and which I then spent in the December of 2023 on a transmission for a 2014 Honda, because our car failed and I had no other money, and because I asked my son and he said yes before I had finished the sentence.

He has never once referred to it.

I think about it about monthly.