Across four clean columns, I had written down every phone call, timestamp, voice message, and account number since Christmas Eve.

My handwriting was small and blocky, the same precise drafting print I used on bridge inspection reports.

Column one listed the exact date the bank released the lien on my 2017 Toyota three years ago, on March fourteenth.

Column two held the transaction receipt showing I had paid the six-hundred-dollar cabin electric bill from my own checking account.

Monica walked in carrying two white ceramic coffee mugs and set one down beside my ballpoint pen.

“You’re mailing the original?” she asked, leaning over my shoulder.