And Ophelia Nakagawa listened to the whole thing and then said one thing about it, which he wrote down in his car afterward in the notes application on his telephone and which he showed me.

She said: “You went there to be seen by a hundred and eighty-four people who were never looking.

“That is the thing that was done to you.

Not the name-calling.

You were taught, for four years, that the only real question in a room is whether the room has noticed you.

“And then you went back at twenty-eight and asked it again.”

He asked her, at the door, whether there had been anything else she could have done in 2012.