I have one now and it took two years and a deposition and it is not a clever one, and it is this: every single word of what she said was true, and it was an argument for disclosure being costly, and she used it as an argument for concealment being right, and those are not the same argument, and the distance between them is where I spent two years of my life.

Part Six: Ross

Ross Bramhall was forty-three and he was not what I expected and I want to give him a fair hearing here, because almost nobody has.

He and Vivienne shared a father and not a mother.

Emory Bramhall had married twice; Vivienne was from the first marriage and was fifty-four, Ross was from the second and was forty-three, and there was a decade between them in which they did not live in the same house.

Emory died in 2011 and left the chief executive role to his daughter and a board seat and a very large block of stock to his son.