Later, Ryan met his father for the first time in 32 years. Douglas Calloway told Dellray about it later, in a brief phone call, his voice stripped down to the bone: “He walked through the door, and I couldn’t speak. I just held on to him. Still can’t believe it.”
A few days after that, Dellray stayed late at his desk and thought again of the original 1994 case file—cardboard cover worn soft, 58 pages, his own handwriting on the tabs. He opened the current case jacket running to 312 pages and growing. He uncapped his pen and smiled at the irony of a business unfinished even after 32 years!