And Tamar, who I rang in the April of this year, which was the hardest telephone call in all of it.
She is thirty-one and she is doing well and she did not have to take my call and she took it.
I told her the review had substantiated item four, and that it had gone to restatement, and that her paragraph from the March of 2024 was in the bundle.
And she said: “Right.” And then: “Can I ask why it was parked?”
And I had about four seconds to decide whether to tell a former employee the truth, and I told her.
I said: because the divisional head was my husband and nobody at Larkspur knew that, including you.
And she was quiet for a bit, and then she said the thing I had not prepared for at all.
She said: “I thought it was me.”
Two years. That woman spent two years with a flat note on her record in her own head — a thing she had raised twice and been parked twice on — and had concluded that she had misjudged it, and had carried that into a new job.
