If you want to know something about your family, you will have to find it out yourself.”

What I sent her the following morning, at Deborah’s direction and with a covering note Deborah wrote, was one document.

Not the audit.

Not a theory.

One page: the Halvard Strategic Partners vendor history out of the Vextor ledger, nineteen months, thirty-one payments, dates and amounts, with the general ledger coding shown as booked.

Strategic development consulting.

No commentary.

No cover letter beyond four lines from an attorney stating what the document was and how it had lawfully been obtained.