The Witness Line
Because she could not possibly know.
Teresa Aguinaldo started at that building in 1996.
She worked alongside him for twenty-one years.
She knew what he told her.
She had no more access to Walter Strand’s marital history before 1996, or outside Ramsey County, or outside the state of Minnesota, than I did.
And I had, by that point, been told one enormous lie by that man on a pavement, and had found out about it eight days after his burial, and I was three days into being a woman who checks.
So I asked her how a person would find out for certain.
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