“Being strong doesn’t mean you aren’t afraid.

It means you don’t let the fear make the decision.” For forty years I believed that numbers told the story.

I was wrong.

People tell the stories.

Numbers only reveal which of those stories are lies.

Michael had built a story in which I was old and confused and helpless, and he had gathered his photographs and his forged documents to make everyone in that courtroom see it.

He was right about a few things.