The Closing Statement
I asked Arthur about it afterward, in a corridor.
He said: “I’ve been sued four times.
Nothing ever happens the way you think it will.
But the paper is always the paper.”
Part Nine: Twenty Minutes
On the Tuesday of the following week I sat in an office in Stamford across from a family lawyer named Patricia Salgado, and in under twenty minutes she took apart the thing I had been living inside for eight days.
I want to put this part in as plainly as I can, because it is the useful part and because it is the part that costs people the most.
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