I made his lunch.

It was not that I did not know.

It is that a man had explained to me, calmly, at a kitchen table, that my knowing was the problem.

Part Fourteen: Ophelia Nakagawa

One adult in that building did her entire job and I have spent the last year making sure her name is in every room I stand in.

Ophelia Nakagawa was a counsellor at Caddo Springs High School from 2006 to 2019.

She had a caseload of about four hundred and thirty students.