The school called. “Your daughter hasn’t been pick…

I’d ever gone in Seattle.

And I was in Chicago that week.

I called the hospital.

A sleepy operator bounced me to records. The records clerk refused at first, citing policy.

I lied.

I told her I had been very sick, that my memory of the period was unclear, that I thought my identity might have been compromised, that I needed the file immediately.

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