Every single one of these rules is named after somebody.

Part Seven: The Meeting in March

The second of the three in-person meetings was on the nineteenth of March 2012 and it is the one that mattered and I handled it badly.

It was in Mr.

Buchwald’s office, which had a window onto a corridor with blinds that were always half open.

There were three of us: him, me, and a counsellor named Ophelia Nakagawa, who I will come to at length because she is the only adult in this account who did the whole of her job.

I had prepared.