“You’re writing it now.

That doesn’t erase what happened before.”

She nodded without relief.

I could not give her relief that required changing the record.

At the police station, she kept the originals in her folder and supplied copies through the proper process.

The emergency recording stayed in the dispatch system, and the evidentiary copies went through the agency procedure.

They were not dependent on somebody remembering which chair had held my folded checklist.

Afterward, she sat in her old Buick before starting it.