My husband splashed champagne over my dress at his promotion gala to introduce his mistress.

And then the seventh of November, and eleven words into a telephone.

I did not act on that flag when I found it. I acted on it the night my husband poured a drink down my dress.

The division was doing the same thing in the June of 2024 as it was doing in the November of 2025. The only variable that changed in those eighteen months was how I felt.

The promotion.

And now the thing that took the ground out from under me, which I did not learn until the February of

I did not know how that appointment happened. I assumed, the way you do, that it had been done on merit and politics in whatever proportion those things usually come.

The nominations committee met on the eleventh of September, 2025. The minutes are four pages.

On page three there is a line recording that the chairman noted the candidate was “well regarded by significant shareholders” and that this was “a factor supporting continuity”.

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