It’s already moving.

Please approve the final step.

I enlarged it and checked the date.

The transfer had been initiated.

I printed the confirmation and laid it beside the blue folder, and the paper came out with a faint gray line across the bottom from a printer that, like the Buick, was being kept alive past its natural life.

The bank had said an international transfer could take several business days to complete.

I had been holding onto that interval without fully knowing what it could protect.