Now the reason was out and it didn’t feel like relief. It felt like I had missed something important sitting right in front of me the whole time. The Camry still needed its next oil change in a few months.

I would have to decide where to take it but not today.

The note stays in the file where Gene left it. That seems right somehow. I just sit here with what I know and the dent in the chair and no one left to thank for any of it.