Once, in the spring, by message, and he has not told me what was in it and I have not asked.

Part Sixteen: The Twenty-Third of May 2014

He graduated in a stadium on a Friday evening in front of about four thousand people.

I was there.

Douglas was there; we had been separated for ten months at that point and were four months from a decree, and we sat six rows apart by arrangement and it was fine.

My mother came from San Marcos.

Maya was six and wore a dress she had chosen herself which did not go with anything.