“I’ll show him what we’ve actually received.”

June gave me my receipt and the packet.

I requested a second set for the adviser and counsel.

“One stays with me,” I said.

That sentence would have seemed unnecessary a week earlier.

Now I knew how much difference it made to have the paper I was discussing in my own hand.

At 4:20, we reached the driveway.

Mara had collected Noah through the arrangements already made and secured him in the back.