The hospital’s own reasonable efforts had consisted of two letters to an address on Currie Avenue.

The only person in the world with standing to submit that application was his spouse.

Which he had made me, thirty-four days after the admission, for reasons he wrote four pages about and did not mention this once.

Part Thirty-Three: Zero

I submitted the application on the twenty-ninth of April.

It is four pages.

It asks for household size, income, assets, and proof of each.

Proving a dead homeless man’s income is not simple and it took me three weeks.