Leo came in 2018 and Nora in 2021 and by then I had been out of the workforce for eleven years and the clinic I had run had been bought by a hospital system twice.

Nobody stole those eight years from me.

I want to be accurate.

I gave them away for a reason that was good and that did not work, and then I kept giving them away out of habit, and by the time I noticed, the habit was my entire life.

Part Sixteen: The Binder

In the second week of October, Arthur put a binder on the kitchen island in front of me.

It had the 2008 capital entries in it, and it had four vendor contracts in it, and he walked me through all of it for about forty minutes while I stood there with a dish towel over my shoulder.