The restructuring meeting is on a Wednesday.Marcus brings three people from the legal team and a woman named Harriet Cole, who runs endowment strategy for two of the largest private foundations in the country. She is sixty, small, and looks at spreadsheets the way Sophia looks at blank paper. Like they are telling her something nobody else in the room can hear yet.Sophia sits at the head of the conference table.I did not suggest this. I arrived at the room first and took the chair to the left of center, and when Sophia came in, she paused for half a second, read the room, and sat at the head without being asked. Harriet noticed. I noticed Harriet noticing."Walk me through what you are envisioning," Harriet says. She has a legal pad, but she has not opened it yet. She is looking at Sophia.Sophia has a folder. She made it herself, I know, because the tabs are labeled in her handwriting and the paper inside is a mix of printed documents and pages torn from a notebook with charcoal s
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