“I saved a copy in my departure records because I thought it was wrong.

But I won’t just email it around.

Let your lawyer contact mine.”

She sounded relieved after she said the last sentence.

I understood that she had lived with uncertainty of her own.

That evening, my mother called.

“You missed a conference keynote to chase an accusation from five years ago.”

“I missed a conference keynote to meet a child who may be mine.”