Against which:

A hundred and ninety-four couples in two years have had somebody stand on their side.

Six hundred and eleven entries in a county ledger that were not connected to a human being in 2023 and are now in a spreadsheet with his name at the top of it.

Corinne Obodo, who has known for two years what he was called.

And a certified copy of a marriage certificate in a plastic sleeve, on which a man who put his name in a witness box six hundred and eleven times appears, once, beside a different word.