Beside it was the purchase agreement for the Ohio house.

The price was $94,000.

The agreement was dated October 14, with a proposed closing on November 12.

An interim occupancy arrangement explained the separate eighteen-hundred-dollar lease: it was intended to cover living there if the purchase was delayed or not completed as planned.

My name appeared on a signature page.

I had never seen the agreement before.

I photographed the family transaction pages and took my own birth certificate.

I left client files alone.