I do not believe in very much.

I do not think my grandfather knew anything.

He could not have.

But I have read that attendance note perhaps fifty times and I cannot make it mean nothing.

Part Thirty-One: The Denver Heritage Foundation

On the twenty-eighth of February 2025, nineteen days after the petition was filed, an email arrived in Silas’s school account.

He showed me in the shop at the high school at about half past three, with a brass brush in one hand, and he was pleased, and I want that on the record because it is the only moment in this account where my son was taken in by anything.

The Denver Heritage Foundation.