Agnes and Jolene were in the front row.

I want to be exact about that, because I have heard a version of this story told back to me twice in which I arranged the seating so that they would be seen, and I did not, and the fact that I have heard it twice means I told it that way at least once.

The school seats registered family in the front rows.

Agnes Thorne had been registered as Silas Thorne’s grandparent in the school system since 2014 because I had put her there, in a form, in a parent portal, in the September of his second-grade year, because it was true.