I had bought a car seat at the grocery store in Georgetown for thirty-four dollars, which is not a thing you can do now and could barely do then, and which did not have a label on it that I would accept today.

He slept the whole forty miles.

I put the wicker basket on the floor of my office at the shop, which is a room eight feet by nine with a desk in it and a window that does not open, and I lined the basket with two wool blankets and a folded towel.

He slept in that basket for five weeks.

Then he slept in a drawer.