I did.

Ceci Duran still runs that site.

Meridian’s health plan for site staff still has a six-month waiting period and the deductible is now seventy-eight hundred dollars.

Nothing that happened to Bramhall Industrial changed that by one cent, and if you want the single most honest sentence in this entire account, it is that one.

Part Seventeen: The Last Conversation

I was put on paid administrative leave four days after Wilmington, which is standard and which I had been told to expect, and in the restructure that followed the change of chief executive my role was eliminated, which is a thing that is true and that is also a sentence somebody chose.

I got nine months’ severance and I was not asked to sign anything that would have prevented me from writing this, because by then the company’s lawyers had concluded, correctly, that a nondisclosure agreement with me would look worse than anything I could possibly say.