These were people who would say they needed a copy editor to put the final touches on a book when, in reality, they needed someone to help rewrite much of their work. Part editor, part ghostwriter, part researcher. That’s what Ebby was. Ed knew Soh hoped Ebby would go back to school and study law. Or pick up another degree that felt more concrete, as Soh put it. But the beauty of Ebby’s work was that, like Ed’s, it was meant to feel invisible, though it did not lack substance. Ebby did not have Ed’s engineering degrees, but her work, like Ed’s, still involved a buoying-up of structures and
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