It did not become a thing that could be counted, or reviewed, or looked at in aggregate by anybody at any point.

It went into an inbox and produced a reply and then existed nowhere except on a server, which is where I eventually found it, fourteen years later, through a process that cost me eleven dollars and forty cents.

Part Five: Eleven Emails and Three Meetings

Between the fourth of November 2010 and the ninth of April 2013, I contacted Caddo Springs High School about my son eleven times in writing and three times in person.

I did not know that number until this year.