Al turned the list to him again and stared at it, as if he wanted to wear a hole through it with his eyes so he didn't have to make a decision.
Then slowly, he crossed out both, the first and the second line. Then he corrected the "I" in the third statement to "we" and let them both stand.
If you sign this with your full names, include a picture of both of you, and send it in as a letter to the editor, you won't even need me to write an article for you, he said. You'll demonstrate the first two lines by example by only revealing the last two.