Summary

“A Cold Case” - While on a visit to Hawaii, the author writes, he had his computer bag stolen. He was less concerned about his computer, he comments, than he was about his passport: he and Hugh, he explains, had gone through a lengthy, complicated, and expensive process to get an “Indefinite Leave to Stay” sticker in their passports, which meant that they could stay in their adopted home (the United Kingdom) for as long as they wanted. Wanting the passport back, he writes, led him to scour the area around the hotel for what was taken, imagining the whole time that the thief was a drug addict getting high after buying drugs with the proceeds of the sale of everything in the bag. Neither the bag nor its contents was ever recovered, meaning that the author and Hugh had to return to...