I had given him three pairs on the seventeenth of December.

He was wearing one pair when he went into the residence.

One pair went into the laundry there.

The third pair he put in his rucksack and did not open.

I have asked myself about those socks approximately nine hundred times and the only answer I have got to that holds is that he was keeping them, in the way that people who have had nothing keep things, against a winter he already knew he was not going to be in.

His employee identification badge from the Ramsey County offices, expired in 2017, with a lanyard still on it, in the small zipped pocket at the front where you keep the thing you do not want to lose.