ELIWe spent three days crafting the statement. Three days of writing and rewriting, of Patricia reviewing every word, of Mason and me debating what to reveal and what to keep private.In the end, we decided on honesty. Not every detail, but the truth of what mattered.Patricia had arranged for us to release the statement through a press release and a coordinated social media post. No interviews initially. Just our words, our truth, put out into the world for people to judge.Thursday morning, we were scheduled to release it at ten AM. I'd barely slept the night before, anxiety keeping me awake, my mind spinning with all the ways this could go wrong.Mason had stayed over, refusing to let me face this alone. Now he sat next to me on the couch, his laptop open, the statement pulled up on the screen."Last chance to back out," he said quietly. "We don't have to do this. We could stay quiet, let the rumors die down, handle the ethics investigation privately.""No," I said. "We do this. O
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