What she has from them, Marcus says, is not what anybody expected.

She has almost no narrative memory of the house.

What she has is a set of physical reactions that arrive without a reason attached — a particular kind of quiet, a particular kind of light, the sound of a car on gravel.

She is in third grade and she is doing well and she has a dog that cost an absurd amount of money and that Marcus describes as “the worst decision and the best decision.”

She did not have to give evidence.