It was not a story I needed to tell differently each time someone asked.

It was a record that could be checked.

I asked if he thought the investigators would ask him to testify.

He said if they did he would tell them what he wrote.

If he remembered something else he would say that too.

He would not make a guess sound like a fact.

He closed the notebook and asked how I was doing with the move.

I said I had a bag of clothes and a box of photographs.