I'd say it's like you left one piece of paper, from a pad, that was just under a handwritten "secret document" out on a table in a public park. Then a reporter

I'd say it's like you left one piece of paper, from a pad, that was just under a handwritten "secret document" out on a table in a public park. Then a reporter came along and rubbed a pencil on it, revealing the writing from the sheet above it.