Martha received appropriate medical assessment for soreness and strain after the fall.

She had legal options.

She decided how much of that process she wished to pursue.

I respected her choice.

For months, I found myself thinking about the difference between proving someone had done something wrong and persuading the entire world to condemn them.

The first sometimes requires records.

The second can become an endless performance.

I’d already spent too much of my life performing for the Sterling family.