“I was so angry with myself,” she finally said.

“Then I thought, if I don’t stop, the girls will think I am angry with them.”

“That sounds like something to talk through with the people helping you.”

“I am.”

There was comfort in that answer.

She had support beyond a sister and a neighbor trying to say the right thing.

The case did not proceed at the pace of a television episode.

There were hearings, documents, and explanations repeated because a person in shock cannot always absorb them once.