The Morning After My Son’s Funeral, an Airport Worker Called and Said, “Your Son Checked In”

She listened without interrupting, and when I finished she pulled a banker’s box out from behind her desk and set it on the table between us.

“Then I’ll start from the beginning and go slowly,” she said, “because there’s more than he had when he made that tape.”

Here is what she laid out over the next two and a half hours.

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