Marty Paramus and his partner specialize in legal nuances arising from the new time-travel technology.
So you figured that if you kept Franklin’s biological mother and father from meeting, he would never have been born, your parents’ marriage would have remained happy, and your life would have remained wonderful.

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  1. “Paradox & Greenblatt, Attorneys at Law” by Kevin J. Anderson, in Analog, September 2005.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Kevin J. Anderson