That is the entire thing.

Six years, two childhoods, four addresses, an airport floor — and the operative fact is that between the twenty-ninth of May of that year and the morning I sat down on the marble in Terminal 4, not one person in Evelyn Tarrant’s life ever said the sentence take that to a lawyer and ask whether it’s worth anything.

I have asked her whether she ever thought about it.

And she said: “Marcus, I thought about it constantly.