He said: “Valerie, I’ve been doing this twenty-two years.

From where that bench sits, you’re a colonel who files motions.

That’s it.

That’s the whole impression, and it took four filings to build and it will take four years to unbuild.”

The telephone calls were worse than the cancellations.

I had two video calls a week in the order.

In 2023 I got about sixty per cent of them and in 2024 about thirty and in 2025 fewer.

And when I did get them, for the last year and a half, something was wrong with my daughter on the screen and I could not name it.