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“Oh, come off it. You didn’t ‘disagree.’ You disapproved.” === Ego puffery will get you into trouble every time, but what else was I to do? === I’d committed the two cardinal sins in the catechism of a private eye: 1. Never allow your car to get low on gas. I was looking at a third of a tank at best. Now I was in a hurry and had no time to top it off. 2. Never pass up a chance to pee. === I knew my current obsession was an emotional state called “psychological assessment”—an endless revisiting of events in hopes the outcome would change. === “You felt no compassion for his Marfan syndrome?” === I have clients you’d swear up and down were total, unmitigated slobs, but they’re actually the opposite—so hell-bent on ‘clean and tidy,’ they can’t even start.