“Daddy says it’s love,” Ashley continued.

“But it’s love even when things go wrong.

That’s what he says when we don’t have enough money.”

For a moment Natalie could not speak.

Somewhere in town strangers were still replaying a video of this child being carried out of her home, confidently telling one another what her father must have done.

The girl herself was explaining something entirely different.

Natalie’s radio sounded again.