That is the first thing and it is what everybody says and it was true.

He said: “Val.”

And I said nothing.

And he said: “I never wanted it to go that far.”

And I said: “You put our daughter in a box.”

He put his hands over his face and he said something about his mother — that she had told him Sophia was already gone, that the clinic had said, that it was a matter of paperwork, that she had said it was temporary and that they would fix it after.

And I asked him one question.