At the time all I knew was that nobody would look directly at me.

Kevin stood up at one point and went to the door and looked down the corridor and came back and sat down again, which is the most frightened thing I have ever watched a grown man do.

And then the doctor came in.

Part Twenty: Kind, Tired Eyes

“There’s a problem,” he said.

“We’re going to have to put you fully to sleep.”

He was perhaps fifty-five.