And on the fourth of December he sat down outside a subway station with a piece of cardboard.

Twenty-two days.

I do not know what he did in those twenty-two days.

I know he had a library card, because it was in his coat.

I know the Ramsey County law library is in the building he worked in for twenty-eight years.

I have no evidence whatsoever that he went anywhere near it.

Part Thirty-Six: What I Have Decided

I have been at this for three years and I have arrived somewhere, and it is not a nice place, and it is the truest thing I have.