It is not a scale and it was never a scale, and it took a prosecutor, a psychologist and two years to get me to stop weighing things on it.

Part Twenty-Two: The Interview Room

I asked to see Fernando once, before the plea, and everybody advised me against it.

Rosaura Pizarro advised against it.

My own attorney advised against it.

My father advised against it in four words and then did not raise it again.

It was arranged in the January, in a room at the county facility, with a table between us and an officer at the door, and it lasted about nine minutes.

He had lost a great deal of weight.