He Spent a Year Paying a Doctor to Write Down a Fragile, Unstable Version of Me That Didn’t Exist — So When He Finally Set Me Aside, the Whole World Would Believe I’d Simply Come Apart on My Own

He had spent a career learning to control what people believed.

He had never had to face what was simply so.

Chapter 12 — Show Them the Facts

“I’m afraid no one will believe me,” I confessed to Dr.

Pratt one evening.

“He’s spent years making everyone love him.”

“Then don’t ask them to believe you,” she said.

“Show them what’s true, and let them do the believing on their own.” Attorney Cardenas had the same instinct, and it was ruthless and it was right.