I thought about it for the first two years, about once a week.

“And every time, I got to the same place, which is: what am I checking?

I am not checking whether the paper is valid.

I am checking whether he wrote his name at the bottom of a page that says he doesn’t want them.

“And I had already looked at that.

I looked at it for about a minute in a conference room and I recognized your writing.

“A lawyer wasn’t going to tell me anything I didn’t already know, because the thing I thought I knew wasn’t a legal question.”