There is a thing now and it is very small and I want to describe it accurately because these accounts always end with a foundation and mine is four people and a spreadsheet.

It is called the Witness Line and Teresa named it.

There are, at the moment, nineteen of us on a list.

We are: me, Teresa, Greta, Binta from the coffee cart who insisted, Corinne Obodo in Duluth who drives down about twice a year, two retired clerks from that building, Odessa Krammes the funeral director, Damaris Fong, and ten people who have found us since.

If two people arrive at the Ramsey County offices without witnesses, the staff at the counter have a laminated card with a number on it.