She was fifteen and she was sitting on the floor of my study while Arthur and I argued about words like “advocacy” and “empowerment,” and she said, without looking up:

“Why don’t you just call it what it is.

It’s Ask For The File.”

So it is called Ask For The File, and it is printed on a card the size of a business card, and on the back of the card there are two paragraphs and a web address and the words this is free, it is your right, and you do not have to give a reason.

We have handed out about nine thousand of them.