Forty-two accounts.

Six of them had come in off pitches I ran alone, and I wrote that too, in handwriting that got smaller as it went.

Seven words into the second line, the pen stopped.

“I don’t know how to write this,” I said.

She set the menus down.

“You want to know what I think?”

“No.”

“I’m going to tell you anyway.” She leaned her forearms on the counter.