“People can be more than one thing.

What’s important is that their choices have consequences.”

PART 8

The Tower With the Blue Windows

A week later Caroline brought me to Manhattan to meet the property management team.

Ashford Tower rose between older brick buildings, its blue windows reflecting a slice of autumn sky.

I had passed office towers all my life without thinking about the cleaners, technicians, clerks, and security staff who made them function.

At the entrance a woman named Denise greeted us.