I did not foreclose. I want that said plainly, because everyone assumes I did. I let the notice stand for nine days and then I withdrew it, and the reason was a fourteen-year-old boy.
Elliott called me on the fourth day from a school office phone because his parents had taken his. He did not ask me to come back or to pay anything. He asked whether I was warm. That was the whole question. It was the first time in five years anyone in that house had asked me something that was not a request.
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