Go and get the case file.”

Part Twenty-Three: The Twenty-Ninth of October

A guardianship case file is a public record.

You walk in, you give the case number or the name, and you read it at a table.

It costs twenty-five cents a page to copy.

I had never been in that room.

The case has my name on it.

Helen and I sat at a table in the records room in the basement of the county building on the fifteenth of October 2024 for about two hours.