And then I started building.

Part Eleven: Why I Hired a Lawyer in Week One

I retained an attorney on the eighteenth of October, seven days in, and it cost me four thousand dollars as a retainer and about nine thousand in the end, and it is the best money I have ever spent and I recommend it without reservation to anybody in this position.

I want to explain this properly because it feels, to an innocent person, like an admission, and it is not, and that instinct is the single most dangerous thing about being inside a window.