She was not doing it for us.

I want to be clear about that, because I have read the letter she sent me and I’ve read it more than once and I don’t think she is a good woman now.

I think she is a woman who worked eleven-hour shifts in a commissary kitchen for two years and lost the ability to tell herself the story.

It cost her the money. That’s how I know it was real.

It’s the only way I know anything is real anymore — what it cost the person doing it.

Kesler withdrew from representing Paige eight days later.