See him then leaving work in Manhattan, 7:15, a summer night, stepping away from Must, feeling Maybe. Disappointing, these years later: he never met someone on the sidewalk open to change. Say a toast to those missed chances on the way to the train—safely carouseled from opportunity, chrysalis denied.

Leo Vanderpot lives in Croton-on-Hudson, New York. His memory piece about donating letters by Dwight Macdonald to the Yale Library appeared in Hinterland, a journal associated with the University of East Anglia.