And ten weeks before anybody told me there was any paperwork at all.

It is six lines long.

It instructs the firm to prepare a voluntary relinquishment and a guardianship petition in respect of the minor child.

And it names the proposed guardian.

Roland A.

Thorne, of Silver Plume, uncle of the minor.

On the eleventh of September 2006 — while I was sleeping four hours a night with a thirteen-week-old in a drawer on two sawhorses, while I was two months from selling my grandfather’s lathe for four hundred dollars — a letter went to a firm in Denver naming me.

I had already had him for thirteen weeks.