The Man on Her Left
Then he spent forty minutes on the ramp.
Forty minutes on eleven hundred dollars of plywood and carpet in a hotel ballroom.
He took me through the production meeting on the twenty-seventh of November four separate times.
Who was present.
What was said.
What words I used.
Whether I had said “a speaker” or “one of the speakers.” Whether anybody had asked a follow-up.
Whether I had corrected it afterward.
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