I did not have a relationship for eleven years and then I had two, neither of which was anybody’s fault.

Clara married a man from Idaho Springs in 2009 and had two daughters and I was glad about it and I was not glad about it, and both of those were true for a long time and now only the first one is.

Jolene sent a card in 2011 with no return address and nothing in it but her name.

And Agnes and Thaddeus came to four things in eighteen years: a school concert in 2013, Silas’s confirmation in 2016, a hospital in 2019 when he broke his wrist, and his tenth birthday, which is Part Eighteen.