But I had seen what those details cost Piper, and I didn’t owe them to strangers.

A month later, Dolores’s attorney approached my lawyer about a possible resolution.

I was informed, but decisions about prosecution were not mine alone to make.

I told the prosecutor I would cooperate and that I wanted Piper spared unnecessary appearances wherever the law permitted.

What I learned through all this was that accountability is not the same thing as revenge.

Revenge asks how much pain another person can be made to feel.