When a lawyer from the future decides to rent an apartment in 1968 San Francisco, she must first sign your standard temporal noninterference contract—yeah, like that one ever holds up in court!
Don’t change the past or the past will change you. The time laws. You lawyers understand this kind of thing. You, and you alone, are responsible for any dislocation of past events, persons or things, et cetera et cetera. Read the small print and sign.

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  1. “3 RMS Good View” by Karen Haber, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, mid-December 1990.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Karen Haber