May 12, 2022:
Inside an old book there's a "While you were out" message form from the hotel where he worked desk 35 years ago.
Pink, with a penciled note on the back: "March Commissions: 3/2: $7.00 $5.00".
The note means nothing. The form itself means 35 years lost, abandoned, surrendered, resented, unrecoverable.