The closure reason, on the form, is one word.

Deceased.

Thirty-four days.

A county agency opened a file on my grandmother, a woman rang her up, my grandmother protected her son on the telephone, and then she died, and somebody typed one word in a box and the file went into a cabinet.

Separately, in the November, the bank’s own security function referred the attempted transaction to the Oakhaven police, which is also a thing a bank does because it has to, and a detective named Kelvin Osei took a report, and that report has a number, and I bought a copy of it for nine dollars in the February.

It is four pages.