A: I’m going to answer that. But first, answer this for me, because others following this conversation may be wondering: Why is all of this so important to you? Why are you spending so much time on “who asked who?”
Q: Because if all of this is you coming to us, it could feel to some very much like a command, not an opportunity; like an order, not an invitation. I know that you do not issue “orders” or give us “commandments,” but this invitation of yours could seem to some like one of those mobster movies, when Don Corleone says: “I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.”