He said: “The rule is six years.

I am aware of the rule.”

And then he said: “In 1988 a family came to me eleven years after a closing about a boundary and I had thrown the file out, and I have never once in my life forgotten the look on that woman’s face, and it cost me a hundred and sixty dollars a month for thirty-seven years not to have to see it again.”

He drove to the storage unit the next morning.