That I had not been invisible to her, not for one single day.

That is why I wept over that letter and not over the millions.

The money changed my circumstances.

But the letter changed something far more important: it gave me back the belief that I existed.

You can build a whole new life on money.

But first you have to believe you are real enough to deserve one, and it was Evelyn, at the very end, who gave me that.