The bank that held my parents’ account had been acquired twice.

The bank that held Vance Global’s original operating account had been acquired once and had closed the branch.

The title company that handled the Boston closing dissolved in 2013.

Patricia was blunt about it in the second week of October.

She said we had my testimony, which a court can accept and which the other side will characterize as a wife’s recollection, and Arthur’s testimony, which is better but which is also a business partner in active litigation with the defendant.

She said: “What we do not have is a document.