People ask if it was worth it.

That is not a question that has a shape.

A leg does not have a price and neither does an afternoon and the money is not compensation, it is just the only instrument the system has.

Part Fourteen: The Thing I Did Not Do

On day nine I had the address in my phone and my hand on the door of a rental car in a parking garage in Tyler at about one in the morning.

I want to write this part properly because every man who hears this story tells me, at some point, usually kindly, that he would not have been able to stop himself.