And there was a third thing, which I found on the fourteenth page and which is the reason I ended up where I ended up.

The hospice charges were not on it.

Twenty-one days of residential hospice care, which I had been quietly terrified about since the twenty-first of February and had not mentioned to Greta, does not appear anywhere in that itemization, and the reason is that Walter Strand was seventy-one.

He was on Medicare, and the Medicare hospice benefit covers it, and it had been covered from the fifteenth of December, and it was arranged by Priyanka Sodhi in an afternoon while I was at work worrying about socks.

I wrote to the agency again on the seventh of April with the itemization and a copy of the marriage certificate and one paragraph identifying the date split.