My Husband Left Our Four-Year-Old Without a Sitter and Took His Mother on Vacation—Then I Found My Signature on Military Papers I Never Signed
Some access occurred during my adult military service.
Other references appeared in much older archival material.
The older dates needed particular care.
An archived record could carry the year the original document was created, not the date a later person retrieved or copied it.
Lena wasn’t going to treat a historical date as proof that Natalie or Ryan personally accessed an adult military file decades earlier.
That distinction mattered.
The dates surrounding my adoption were old.