The written venue inquiry followed: January 29.

Then the cancellation I had authorized before the February 14 deadline.

My notes about Elliott’s promises went beside those records.

They were my recollection of our conversations, not emails he had written or a recording I could play.

Marjorie asked me to distinguish those things when I spoke.

“Don’t fill a gap in the paper with a sentence you wish he’d said.”

“I won’t.”