There was also a paper invitation.

The committee sent about sixty, to anybody they had a home address for out of the directory.

Julian Renner’s went to 1408 Caliche Bend.

That is the house with the corner lot and the four bedrooms and the padlock, and it was sold in the May of 2016 as part of a divorce decree, and the forwarding order on it expired in 2017, and the people who live there now are called something else and have never heard of any of us.

And in the group chat, on the eleventh of September 2024 — the day after my son telephoned me laughing and then not laughing — Gregory Pafford posted: