I built it between the fourteenth of October and the end of January and it was beautiful and I believed every word of it and I was wrong.

I am going to lay it out the way I laid it out then, in order, because the only way to explain how a reasonable person gets there is to show the construction.

One. On the morning of the eleventh, Perla drove forty-one minutes east to my house and then drove back west past her own subdivision to a shopping centre twenty minutes from her home.

Two. Our mother lives eleven minutes from Perla and had offered to take Esme that day.