“Hannah.

He worked here.”

Part Sixteen: Twenty-Eight Years

Walter Strand worked in that building from 1989 to 2017.

Twenty-eight years in court administration in Ramsey County, and for nineteen of them his desk was in vital records, and his principal function — the thing he did all day, most days, for the majority of his working life — was marriage licences and the civil ceremony calendar.

He issued licences.