Chloe Bennett, who will be explaining a settlement in job interviews when she is fifty.

And Julian’s mother, who is seventy-eight, who was at my wedding, who sued and lost, and who I do not think did anything wrong at any point in this except sign a deed in 2011 when her son asked her to.

Against which:

My children live in a house I own, near a school they like.

Two hundred and thirty-one people work at a company with a whistle-blower line, an audit committee and a twenty-five thousand dollar signature threshold.

There is a memorandum of decision on file in Hartford, thirty-one pages long, public, permanent, which states as a finding of fact that seventy-four per cent of the founding capital of Vance Global came from a three-storey rowhouse in Dorchester.