Forty-Eight Hours
The school accepted it, because a school that does not accept a doctor’s note is a school in a lawsuit, and the process was closed, and there is a form in a file with a box ticked.
Aracely Villaseñor wrote to me in the September.
Four pages, by hand.
She is the only person in this entire account who has ever apologized to me and she is the only one who has nothing to apologize for, and I have written back twice and she has not accepted it either time.
What she wrote, on the third page, is this:
I want to tell you the exact thing I did not do, because you are entitled to it and because I have been a teacher for twenty-six years and I have never written a letter like this.