PART 3   I stared at the hospital bracelet in the lunchbox until the letters of my own name blurred.

call back Monday.

By noon, I understood something my mother had known for thirty years.

It is easy to tell someone to get help.

It is much harder to find help that actually opens the door.

Walter sat at the kitchen table, embarrassed by every phone call.

“You don’t have to do all this,” he said.

I kept writing numbers on a yellow pad.

“I know.”

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