It cost about nineteen thousand dollars, most of which we did not get back.

It ended four friendships.

It required my sister to drive two people home who had flown in from Georgia.

It also took twenty minutes, and it was not a difficult decision, and I would like to be honest about that too.

The difficult part had all been in the eighteen months before, and I had failed all of it.

Real protection almost never looks the way people imagine.