Both stories were available.

Both were honest.

I chose the one I wanted my children to inherit — not because it made the horror smaller, but because it made them larger than the horror.

That is the last thing a mother can do, when she cannot undo what was done: she can decide what it will be allowed to mean.

I decided.

I said it into the microphone, for Mason and Wyatt, and then I stepped down and went back to the front row and took their hands.\n\nChapter 19 — The Verdict

The judge showed them no mercy, and there was none to be shown.