speak to clients. He could make hiring decisions that kept him awake. This was different. He was about to tell a room of people how lonely he had been while many of them were busy remembering a wonderful time.
“I wasn’t on the original contact list,” he began.
The room became quieter.
“Daniel helped fix that. Thank you. I mention it because, for a few days, I thought the decision was whether I wanted to come back and prove something.”
He looked down at the envelope, thenput it on the
