He wrote it in one sitting.
The same way he had written the vows — on a Tuesday, at the study desk, with the dual filing system and the two photographs and the drawer that held the things that belonged together.
Five years.
He had been asked to speak at the five-year anniversary of the framework's public statement — not the designation framework exactly, but the statement that had preceded it, the Sunday morning that had been the beginning of the beginning. The National Omega Employment Initiative had organized an event. Dr. Osei had asked. He had said yes before the question was finished.
He wrote for two hours without stopping.
When he was done he read it once.
He didn't change anything.
The event was held at a conference centre in the city.
Four hundred people.
Seren had not expected four hundred people.
