That is deliberate and it is by design and my father insisted on it.

In almost every case the answer will be nothing at all.

Part Thirty: Maya

Maya Beltran is nine now and she is not my story and I am going to say only what her father has told me I may.

She was in hospital for nineteen days.

Her physical recovery took about four months and is complete.

The other recovery is not complete and Marcus says it is not going to be complete in the way people mean when they use that word, and that this is what he has been told by two psychologists and that he has stopped arguing with it.

She lost four months at six.