He included the email.

The four-line one, from Phoenix, on the eleventh of December.

Theresa asked him why, when he told her.

“Because one day they’re going to be somewhere,” he said, “and somebody smooth is going to tell them a story about a quiet person who can’t defend themselves.

And I want them to have read, in their own father’s handwriting, exactly how easy that was to do to a man who thought he was nobody’s fool.”

Out on the lawn, something has gone catastrophically wrong with the training.