They are the entire evidentiary record of a person she is related to and does not remember.

Take them down and she does not become less sad.

She becomes less sure the person existed.

I did not manage those five years well.

I want that written down plainly, because there is a version of this story where I am the vigilant father who caught it, and that version is a lie.

I went back to work eight weeks after my wife’s funeral because the alternative was staying in the house.