And then she said, “I’m going to need that to be said again in about a year, when I’ve stopped being polite about it.”

Which I thought was a joke and which was not.

She said it again in the February and I said it again.

She did not file anything.

There is no lawsuit.

She looked at it seriously with Meriwether in the August and concluded what she had already known in March, which is that there is no order and therefore no arrears and that a civil claim fifteen years out would fail on the statute and would fail on the merits, and that she had known that in the storage unit and had built the crate anyway.

She said to me, that Saturday on the porch: “The worst part of the whole thing isn’t that I was going to do it.