Nobody Was Present

And she said: “No, mijo.

I said it the way you say a thing to a man you do not want to insult.

And you heard it the way you hear a thing you do not want to be told, and we both did what we always do.”

Part Thirty-Five: A Hundred and Eighty-One

I pulled my travel records in the December of 2024 because I wanted to know the number and because by then I had become a person who pulled records.

Expense reports go back seven years in our system.