I said it was necessary to me.

Delphine Sawicki said, with some feeling, “It is extremely necessary,” and that is how it was done, and two years later that promissory note was the single most important document in my life.

Second, I said: I am a Meridian employee.

If you hire me directly, the health plan has a ninety-day waiting period.

I need to know today whether that waiting period applies, and if it does, this conversation is over.

Delphine Sawicki said she would have an answer in an hour.