Restrepo, thank you for telling me it took you three days.

Most people give me the sentence and not the three days, and the three days is usually the more useful thing.”

Part Six: Inside the Window

I need to describe what it is like to be a person who has done nothing and who is inside the window, because I did not know and because I have since found out that almost nobody knows.

The window, in our case, was from nine forty-three in the morning, when my sister’s car left my driveway, until ten fifty-nine, when I walked into an emergency department.