I did not defend myself, or explain, or engage with a single accusation.

I had spent eight years learning that facts, laid out plainly and in order, do not need your voice raised for them.

Damon had built something out of lies and borrowed money, and a thing built out of lies and borrowed money does not need an enemy to bring it down.

It only needs someone to stop holding it up, and to turn the lights on, and to let everyone see what it was actually made of.

I turned the lights on.