I have read that order perhaps twenty times.

It is a page and a half.

It is not dramatic in any way.

And what it means, which I did not fully take in until the February, is that the instrument my mother bought in 2019 with fifty-five thousand dollars of her grandson’s money, in order to be able to take my workshop away from me whenever she chose, is the thing that paid my workshop off.

She spent five and a half years holding that note over me.