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CHAPTER 141: The Fifth Year
The board meeting on the foundation's fifth anniversary ran for three hours, which was the longest board meeting in its history, and nobody asked to leave early.Kofi chaired.He had started chairing six months earlier, at Sera's suggestion and the board's unanimous agreement, which had been the most quietly significant governance moment in the foundation's history because it confirmed, in the specific institutional language of a chairperson appointment, that the foundation's operational leadership had moved completely from its founder to the person who had built his own version of what the work meant.Ezra sat to Kofi's left.He spoke four times.The first time was when Achebe who had been working with the foundation for eight months as a structural architecture consultant, the board's most controversial appointment and, by the evidence of eight months of case outcomes, their most useful presented his analysis of the Aldbourne firm's restructured model and identified three remaining
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CHAPTER 142: The Personal
Clara was asleep by eight.This had become the reliable fact around which Tuesday evenings organized themselves Clara asleep by eight, the flat quiet, Nadia finishing whatever she hadn't finished during the day, Ezra at the table with whatever required his attention, and at some point in the hour between eight and nine the work stopping by mutual unspoken agreement and the evening becoming simply the evening.Tonight Nadia came from the studio at eight thirty and sat across from him and didn't open her laptop.He looked up.She was looking at him with the expression that preceded the things she said when she had been holding them for a while and had decided the holding was finished."I want to tell you something," she said."Tell me," he said."I've been thinking about my mother," she said. "Not in the way I think about her when I'm working when the eastern quarter or a new project reminds me of what she did, and it becomes about the work. I've been thinking about her as a person. Who
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