And Helen Bowersock said: “You have a nineteen-year-old in June and a statutory right you have never exercised.

You do not need nine hundred dollars.

Sit down.”

We laid the 2006 papers out on the outfeed table of the table saw under the shop lights.

And the first thing I did was show her the thing I had spotted the night before and been up until two in the morning about.

The county clerk’s filing stamp at the top of page one is dated the twenty-ninth of October 2006.

My signature on page nine is dated the twenty-second of November 2006.