I’ve thought about it a lot and that’s the true answer and it’s a horrible one.”

And Nell said, “Yeah,” and then she asked whether we could get the kind of fries that come in the paper cone.

Part Fourteen: Nineteen Months

People want the courtroom.

There is no courtroom.

That is the first thing I say now to anybody who asks how it ended, and it disappoints them every time, and I have stopped apologizing for it.

Here is what actually happened, on the actual timeline, which is the part of this account I most want people to have.