They could not identify her.

There were four gate agents and two supervisors working that pier that night and none of them recalled it, which is entirely believable, because handing somebody a blanket is not a thing you remember.

And in the June, when I was still at it, Evelyn sat down opposite me at a kitchen table and said:

“Marcus.

Stop.

“You are trying to pay somebody for the one thing in six years that nobody did for a reason.

“Your mother had a reason.