I said, “That’s my debts.”

And Vivienne Bramhall said, “Yes.”

“To the dollar.”

“Approximately. I rounded.”

And I said the thing that I did not plan and that came out of somewhere underneath me.

“Ma’am, I’d like you to understand what that looks like from this chair.

You ran my credit and you added me up and you put the total on a piece of paper, and what that says is: this is what you cost.”

Delphine Sawicki put her pen down.