I could not account for why I had not seen it.

A sent message did not prove delivery, and an absence from my memory did not prove Graham intercepted it.

We placed that item aside with its unresolved question.

I was not going to make every missing email part of an accusation simply because one forwarding note was ugly enough to make the others seem inevitable.

The foundation’s authorized contact later confirmed the November third deactivation from their records.

We kept that confirmation with the correspondence.