Pushkin.

When I was a little kid, my father used to tell this story about when he was a young lawyer

in New Orleans.

It was one of those stories that sounded a bit different to you as a grown-up than as

a child, but maybe all stories do.

Anyway, in my father's telling, he just started at a law firm.

And that firm had been hired by a big railroad company.

The railroad was defending itself against one of its own employees.

This poor worker had lost his arms in an accident, for which the railroad was clearly responsible.

My father's job was to minimize the amount of money that the railroad had to pay to the

employee.

My dad went hunting for a creative defense.

I don't know where I got the idea, but the idea was that handicapped people can still work.

That's my dad, Tom Lewis.

His hunt for a creative defense led him to Nashville, Tennessee, where he found, well, he actually

found an expert who trained people with no arms to do lots of amazing things.

This expert promised to show any jury that it wasn't a big deal at all to lose your arms.

You could still do so much.

My father was so impressed that he flew the guy to New Orleans and put him on a witness

stand as an expert witness.

And he said, oh, yes, he said, and then he started to give me an example.

This is on the stand.

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