My 8-year-old son gave up his lunch money to buy a little girl with Down syndrome a red dress—the next morning, our lawn was covered with lunchboxes, but what was inside the biggest one made him go pale.

She does not handle it. She does not thank anybody for it. It is a line in somebody else’s accounts.

That was Perrin’s condition and it was the correct one and it took a woman at Wexham called Aster Boone about two hours of phone calls to set up.

It covers Effie’s programme until she is five and a half.

And it is not anonymous, because Aster Boone would not let it be. She said funds have to have a named donor for their audit and that was the end of that argument.

It is called the R. Fund.

Bernice picked the letter. She would not tell anybody what it stands for and she has been asked four times.

Now.

Some other things, and then the one thing I actually want to say.

Felix ate lunch every day for the rest of that school year and Ruthie Okoro checked, personally, which she was not asked to do.

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