My 5-Year-Old Niece Whispered, “The Chair Hurts”—Then a Doctor Found the Truth Her Parents Had Been Hiding

“Why are you staring?”

“I’m not.”

“You absolutely are.”

I walked away before I embarrassed us both.

The chair had become a chair.

PART 74 — THE QUESTION ABOUT COURT

At sixteen:

“Did I testify?”

“Sort of, but not the way movies show it.”

She wanted details.