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PART 50 — WHAT THIRTY HOURS MEANT

People later focused on the timing.

Thirty hours.

If the Dallas project had not finished early, I would have come home Monday.

By then, more transfers could have cleared.

Nicolai might have discovered the envelope himself.

Nora might have hardened further against me.

The staged evidence might have reached lawyers before I ever knew it existed.

Maybe the plan would still have failed.