The next letter came from the investigator assigned to the financial complaint.<\/p>\n
My attorney called before I opened it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey found two vendor credit applications,\u201d she said. \u201cBoth used your personal information.\u201d<\/p>\n
I sat down.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat kind of applications?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBusiness credit. The vendor names are connected to the event-planning LLC.\u201d<\/p>\n
I remembered the strange credit alert I had ignored months earlier.<\/p>\n
At the time, I had assumed it was a mistake.<\/p>\n
The investigator had traced both applications to the same email address used by Vanessa.<\/p>\n
My name appeared where an owner\u2019s name should have been.<\/p>\n
My Social Security number appeared in the identification field.<\/p>\n
I read the copies at my kitchen table.<\/p>\n
The handwriting was not mine.<\/p>\n
The signature was close enough to make my stomach tighten.<\/p>\n
I called my attorney.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid Vanessa submit these?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe records point to her,\u201d she said. \u201cThe investigator is handling the next steps.\u201d<\/p>\n
I wanted to call Vanessa.<\/p>\n
I wanted to ask her how she could use my name after everything that had already happened.<\/p>\n
Instead, I forwarded the documents to my attorney and saved a copy in the folder with the bank records.<\/p>\n
That folder had grown thick.<\/p>\n
I no longer kept it in the kitchen drawer.<\/p>\n
I put it in a locked cabinet in my apartment.<\/p>\n
A week later, Vanessa called.<\/p>\n
I almost let it go to voicemail.<\/p>\n
Then I answered.<\/p>\n
\u201cClaire?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI heard about the applications.\u201d<\/p>\n
I said nothing.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t think they would use your information like that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou signed them.\u201d<\/p>\n
A long silence followed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was trying to keep the business going.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was no business.\u201d<\/p>\n
She started to cry.<\/p>\n
I listened without interrupting.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t think it would hurt you,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou knew my name was on it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought I could fix it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou had years to fix it.\u201d<\/p>\n
She breathed unevenly into the phone.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at the folder on my table.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not the person who can decide what happens next.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
She ended the call.<\/p>\n
The investigator later confirmed that Vanessa had agreed to cooperate.<\/p>\n
The case did not become a spectacle.<\/p>\n
There were no dramatic arrests, no television cameras, and no public confession.<\/p>\n
There were interviews, records, and formal statements.<\/p>\n
Vanessa eventually pleaded guilty to reduced fraud charges connected to the applications.<\/p>\n
Her attorney negotiated the plea.<\/p>\n
The court set the conditions.<\/p>\n
I did not attend the hearing.<\/p>\n
My attorney told me the result afterward.<\/p>\n
I wrote the date on the inside cover of my folder.<\/p>\n
Then I closed it.<\/p>\n
The credit applications were no longer something I had to prove.<\/p>\n
They were part of the record.<\/p>\n
Mom called that evening.<\/p>\n
\u201cVanessa made a mistake,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
I stood by the window and watched a bus turn at the corner.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe used my information.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was scared.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo was I, when you handed me that bill.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mom did not answer.<\/p>\n
I could hear her breathing.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know how to make this right,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou start by not asking me to make it easier for everyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n
She began to cry.<\/p>\n
I let the silence remain.<\/p>\n
When we ended the call, I did not block her.<\/p>\n
I simply put the phone down.<\/p>\n
For once, I did not feel responsible for what she did next.<\/p>\n
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