Sophie turned the laptop toward me.

“I thought you were making a choice.”

“So did I.”

The printer started, and we both watched the page emerge.

A small machine was producing words that had already changed months of our lives.

We kept the original electronic messages as well as the copies.

On a separate sheet, we noted where each item came from.

We did not write accusations over the headers or use a printout to replace the underlying record.