I had standing.

Nobody in that building ever had to decide whether to tell me anything.

Some of it I had not thought about at all and would have mattered if he had been a different man.

I became his heir, under intestacy, to whatever he had.

He had a rucksack, a stool, a state ID card and eleven dollars.

And one of them I had never heard of in my life.

The debts of a dead person are paid by that person’s estate.