What you saw, what she said, and when it happened.”

I found a yellow legal pad at the nurses’ station.

On the first page, I wrote 5:03 a.m.

Then Maple Avenue and Pine Street.

Then the silk nightgown Chloe had worn, and the words about the silverware, and the names she had spoken.

At the bottom I wrote, “She asked me not to let them take her back.”

At three in the morning, a hospital social worker named Dana approached with two cups of tea.