Entirely theirs, at the counter, at eighteen or nineteen, while everybody is in a good mood and nothing is wrong.

It costs nothing.

It takes about nine minutes at a motor vehicle counter and there is a box for it on the form.

And the reason is not the money.

My daughter’s car was worth seven thousand five hundred dollars and I would have written that cheque on any afternoon of her life.

The reason is that a thing in her sole name made what happened a crime instead of a family argument.

Had that title said Javier Ocaña and Daniela Ocaña, my wife would have been one of two owners, and there is no forgery, no felony, no detective and no file.