Then she said: “Do you want the lawyer thing or the human thing?”

I said the lawyer thing.

And she said: “Paragraph thirteen is now a prior inconsistent theory attributed to a State witness, and the first defence attorney who finds it is going to put it in front of a judge, and you have no idea which side it hurts.”

Part Seventeen: Page Four

I found it myself, eleven days later, on the thirteenth of March, at my own kitchen table at about ten at night, and I have never had a worse four minutes.

Rosalind had asked me to put together a complete chronology of every statement I had made to anybody — dates, audiences, and content — because she wanted to know what was out there before somebody else did.