He did not confide in Helen Marsh, even though she clearly knew something.
He did not go to a lawyer or a social worker or a community organization.
Because doing any of those things meant documentation.
And documentation meant discovery.
And discovery, the kind that involved a formal investigation into the exact circumstances of how three unregistered minors had come to be living in his apartment and enrolled in school under a false family relationship, would have unraveled everything.
Not just for Walter, but for Marcus and Darnell and Calvin.
