The voucher arrangementsHow will people read it?" I ask. Meaning what will they understand about us. A pause. The honest-consideration pause. "They will understand that you are significant to me," he tells me. "The specific nature of the significance they will speculate about. The protection itself they will understand as real." I breathe. "Alright," I tell him. "Alright?" He is not surprised .... he does not perform surprise .... but there is a quality in the single word that tells me he had prepared for this to be more complicated. "Alright," I confirm. "You built it to protect Eli. That is what it does. The rest is other people's speculation and I have stopped managing other people's speculation." A beat. "I'll let you know when it's confirmed," he tells me. He does. The next morning, a
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