Last attestation: wheeling Burt F. Smith to a meeting; the relapsed-Lenz sighting

texture · ~14-17 Nov YDAU

• When: ~14-17 Nov YDAU (during the run of Ennet House visits to the hospitalized Gately)
• What: In Wade McDade's bedside report to the mute Gately, Erdedy's last in-range appearance: he and Burt F. Smith, "on their way back from wheeling Burt F.S. to a meeting in Kenmore Square," spot what looks like Randy Lenz (or "C. Romero after a wasting illness") in a back-split tux and sombrero, "apparently officially relapsed, back Out There, drunk as a maroon," doing a drunk's hurricane-walk from parking meter to parking meter. A small terminal datum with two faces: the man who stood at bay with his hands up is now out doing quiet resident-service, pushing a crippled housemate's wheelchair to a meeting — and it is he who brings back the House's confirmation of what relapse looks like.