He applied to the court in 2024 for contact with Maya, who was fifteen.

It was denied.

He did not appeal.

Julian is an adult and makes his own decisions and they speak about twice a year, and I have never asked a single question about it, and I am not going to start in a document he is going to read.

Part Twenty: My Mother

Nora Vance owned four laundromats and a strip of five commercial units on a road in San Marcos that nobody wanted in 1974 and everybody wanted in 2014.

She bought the first laundromat in 1971 with money from her own mother and she ran it herself, in person, for eleven years, and then she bought a second one, and she did that four times over twenty-six years and then she stopped because four was enough.