My sister’s a corporate lawyer.

She clears more than enough to cover this without blinking.

She’ll sign whatever you put in front of her the second she walks in, because she always does.

That’s what she’s for.

She fixes things.

She pays.”

I want to say the shock was the worst of it, but it wasn’t.

The worst was how unremarkable it all sounded to them — how they discussed me the way you’d discuss a reliable appliance.