In a document.

With numbers on it.”

And I said, “Yes.

And I was wrong and I said so on the second of March and I’ve said so in a courtroom under oath.”

And Perla said: “I know.

And it’s in the file.”

Which is true, and which will be true forever, and which is the exact thing I have spent sixteen years telling other people about their own words.

Part Twenty-Six: Esme