They left me home because a fifth ticket was two thousand three hundred dollars and they could not afford it, and my son could not make himself say that sentence to his mother.
He could not say Mom, we’re in trouble and we can’t afford to bring you.
So he let his wife write you get tired so easily now on a piece of paper and stick it to a refrigerator with a turkey.
I Photographed Every Page and Put the Bin Back Exactly Where It Was
That’s what I did. I want to be clear.
I did not take that bin. Rosalind Achebe had been extremely specific with me on the phone that morning: take nothing that isn’t documented as mine, and she had meant it to include this.
