My parents sued me for the four point seven million dollars my grandmother left me, and to prove I was unstable their own attorney subpoenaed my service record and put it in front of the judge himself. He had read two pages of a hundred and forty. That is how my family found out what I do for a living.

Almost every professional instinct I have was screaming and I very nearly overrode it because my grandmother was cross with me on a telephone.

That is how close it was.

That conversation is in writing.

Not because I recorded anything. Because two days later I emailed her Sowell Brink's name and address and a short note saying I could not be involved and that she should go and see him.

Eleven lines. Sent on a Thursday in January.

Sowell Brink had that email in his file, because she had printed it and brought it to their first meeting, because she was eighty-seven and that is what you do with an email.

He also had his own attendance notes from three appointments, and a capacity assessment he had arranged himself with a physician who was not her own, because he is a careful man who has been doing this in Marrow County for thirty-one years.