They wrote back in eleven days, entirely politely, agreeing that the pre-marriage services were not properly directed to me, and re-issuing the account for six thousand two hundred and forty dollars.

Six thousand two hundred and forty dollars is survivable.

It was one fifth of everything I had, and it would have taken me about fourteen months to replace, and I had made peace with paying it, and I had a payment plan drafted on the eighteenth of April.

And then, on the nineteenth, I found the thing I had walked past four times.

Part Thirty-Two: The Policy Nobody Mentions