I thought back to the summer before I deployed.

We’d spent weeks lining up repair jobs to get the house in shape.

We’d hired a company to rip out the cracked ceramic tile in the master bathroom.

I typed the word tile into my email search.

An invoice from last July came up at the top of the list.

I opened the bill.

The company logo across the top read Brett Construction and Remodeling.

I clicked the blue link at the bottom of the invoice that went to the company’s website.