CHAPTER 56

Lewis: Let me ask you a question. You’re a writer. How much of this should I make up?

Author: Don’t make any of it up.

Lewis: I don’t remember. I just remember I was fired after the meeting.

Author: So the meeting must have happened and then you had this phone call with Manny afterwards, and that’s when you yelled at him?

Lewis: I yelled at him. Because I thought he couldn’t live without me, but he had a saying, ‘Everyone’s replaceable, including me.’ Including Manny. He owned the place. He said, ‘Everyone’s replaceable, including me. Don’t think you’re so special. Everyone’s replaceable.’ And I thought this couldn’t be done without me, but I had shown him how to do it, like a schmuck. Not like a schmuck. It was unavoidable.