I want to write down what I felt when he said Melissa, because it was not what I expected and I have been thinking about it since.

It was relief.

For two years the picture had been out there having come from nowhere. Something taken from me by weather. And now it had a person attached, and a time — 11:11 p.m.

— and a reason, and I could be angry at someone, and I was so glad, and that gladness lasted about six hours.

Then I got to the actual part.

She sent it because it made the text land.