Sam now had a lot of time to think, and he spent a lot of it thinking about this. Human nature had always been something of a puzzle to him, but puzzles could be solved. He sat down to write a memo, very like those he’d written in response to Caroline’s. He was days away from a gag order being imposed by the judge presiding over his case, Lewis A. Kaplan, in response to a request from federal prosecutors. But for the moment, he was still allowed to share his thoughts. “People seem to have a really hard time having thoughts that go out on a societal limb,” he wrote, “even if they never have to
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