You cannot reason a person out of a story that is load-bearing for them.

You can only decline to supply the argument they are hoping to have.

Chapter 21 — Tonight I Am Deciding Why I Started

That night I sat with the banking app open and the recurring transfer still listed for Friday at nine in the morning, and there was no dramatic screen, no final warning, only a small button that would end it.

Marcus set the thirty-nine dollar sneaker envelope on the counter beside the phone and said, if you stop it, they will ask why, and I said, I know, and he said, and if you leave it, you will have to explain why you did not, and I said, I know that too.