The art had been chosen to impress people neither of us liked.

I kept a few small things that were genuinely mine and genuinely loved, and I let the rest go with a lightness that unsettled the lawyers and did not, for one moment, unsettle me.

The criminal matter took longer, as these things do, and it ran on its own track, far from me, in the hands of people whose job it was.

I gave my statements.