So the hotel went on a credit card, and the food went on a credit card, and the retainer went on a credit card, and by the end of the fourth week I owed eleven thousand dollars that had not existed in February.

My daughter had no car seat.

It was in Mitchell’s car.

I bought a new one for a hundred and ninety dollars.

She had four days of clothes.

Everything else — every toy, the good coat, the shoes that fit — was in an apartment I could not enter.