“I want to.”

She took out the dates and read them again.

Her account was now being recorded by the investigator, who would ask the relevant questions and compare it with other material.

I did not coach her to make the first account kinder or stronger.

If she remembered something new, she could say when and how she recalled it.

If she corrected a date, the correction needed to be preserved rather than silently replacing the earlier entry.

“I should have written it before,” she said.