Not who is it for. Not what are her measurements. Not do you have a prescription, which a chair like that does not require if you are paying cash out of your own pocket, and which is the correct answer legally and a catastrophic answer practically, and which I will come back to in the part about the inches.

They sold a fourteen-hundred-dollar piece of mobility equipment to a thirteen-year-old boy and his mother on the basis of a receipt and a clearance tag, the way you would sell a lawnmower.

And then we drove to Oak Street.

It is nine minutes from our house.

A small, extremely well-kept bungalow with a concrete ramp over three of the four front steps — built, I later learned, by Nathan Lin and two men from his shift over a weekend in 2019, which is why it is slightly too steep and why its handrail is on the wrong side.

Julian knocked.