The Light I Turned On
Client logs full of my father’s contacts.
First-draft contracts layered in my red pen.
Bank receipts for the seed money I had wired to keep his dream alive.
I held them up.
“In the first year of Warner’s company,” I told the silent room, “we ran out of runway three times.
The first time, he wept on our apartment floor, and I drained fifty thousand dollars — every cent I’d saved in five years of work — so he could make payroll.
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