Fuentes every other Thursday and will for a long time and does not mind and occasionally uses it as a threat, as in: “I’m going to tell Ileana you said that.”

The door stays open.

Hers and mine, and the hall light stays on, and I do not expect either of those to change for years and it costs me eleven dollars a month and I have stopped noticing.

She does not ask about her father often.

Perhaps four times a year, at right angles, in a car or at a checkout or once, at volume, in a queue at a hardware store.

She has been told, in the language Dr.