“I won’t ask for anything you don’t owe.”

He looked at me as though he had been preparing for another accusation.

I put the folder flat in my bag and went to collect my brothers from school.

PART 7 — The Truth Without Decoration

Before the meeting, Marjorie asked me to place the papers in date order.

“Not the order you discovered them,” she said.

“The order they happened.”

The guardianship order came first: November 18.