There is not one entry in here about a withdrawal, a signature on a slip, or a bank.

It is eight years of a man asking and a woman declining.”

I said, “Then why did she keep it in a safety deposit box?”

And Noreen Schatzberg said the thing that reorganized my understanding of my grandmother and that I have thought about every month since.

She said: “She didn’t keep it there because it was valuable.

“She kept it there because it was the only place in her own house where her son couldn’t read it.

“Chloe, that notebook isn’t evidence.