In a bad way. He said it to her the way he said it to me at that table on the ninth day, and the way he said it to his mother, and the way he eventually said it to a psychiatrist’s receptionist in Beachwood.

He ran one story past everybody in his life and every single one of us got the same version.

What she did do — what the state proved, and what she pled to — is the exams.

Twice, she walked into a hotel meeting room and gave a stranger my name and my date of birth and the inside of her own arm.

Her defense argued that she had been told it was a formality relating to a business policy and that she had not understood what she was signing.