This is what I read out loud in Grandma’s living room, off her own documents, as the thing they did to her. I stood in a foyer and blocked him with my body over this list.”

Patricia Bell put down her pen.

“Yes,” she said. “It’s the same list. It was always going to be the same list. There is only one list, Claire. That’s what makes this work so hard to prosecute.”

She let that sit.

“Do you want the legal distinction or do you want me to just sit here with you for a minute?”

“Legal distinction.”