hello, i'm charmaine. i'm a government attorney, so throughout the book, you kind of touch on, you know, the steps of your investigation. so i'm curious of during investigation, there were any moments where you really wanted to give up and what made you keep going? good question. you make your. yeah, i mean, i don't think there were any moments when i when i contemplated throwing in the towel just because the story was always for me, such a big one. there were times when when i realized that again, remember that the story was initially an article for the newspaper. because because i knew i knew that my editors had certain requirements. so i wasn't the one who was going to be able to decide when it could publish. so i knew that we were going to have to cross some, you know, surmount some bar in the reporting. we were actually going to have to find out what happened to them. and that was a big request. so, yeah, i mean, there were many times when i thought, this feels impossible. john corrigan. wall street j