And the thing my son said in a sandwich shop on the twelfth of June 2025, which is the only sentence in this entire account I would keep if I could only keep one.

Somebody in this family is going to ask a question in writing and it is going to be me.

Part Fifty-Two: Four Things

I say four things when people ask me, and they do ask me now, and it is mostly small rooms — a continuing education evening for school counsellors, twice at a credit union, once in a church hall in Idaho Springs with nineteen people and a tray of sandwiches.

One. If a child in your care is the beneficiary of a trust, you are entitled to an accounting, and you ask for it in writing.