She wore the same brown cardigan for about fifteen years.

She drove a Buick until 2017.

Until she died I do not think she ever spent more than four hundred dollars on anything that was not a building.

She never liked Douglas.

Not once, not for a day, from 1993.

And what she did about it — which I found out in 2013, in a lawyer’s office, when I was forty-six years old — is that she kept a notebook.

Nine years of it.