Seeing it attached to a plea did not erase those memories.

It made them harder to place beside the rest of what I knew.

“What about Linda?”

“She’s entered a cooperation agreement.

The terms address her cooperation and continuing restitution obligations.

It reduces the criminal exposure described here; it doesn’t erase what she did.”

I read the relevant part without asking Sophia to soften it.

I did not have a prison sentence to announce.