I would have written a cheque, and it would have been dealt with, and she would have had no project.

And for eight months, while I was in Yuma and Tulare and Albuquerque, my wife had a thing that was entirely hers to manage, with a deadline and a plan and a telephone relationship with her brother, in a house with one other person in it.

Part Thirty-Four: Lupita Serna

Lupita Serna has lived across the street from us since 2015.

She is seventy-one and she is outside watering at about half past six most mornings and she has a folding chair in her carport.