It was less final than the mother sometimes wanted.

It was much more real than the informal agreement she had hoped to make inside the family.

She received the official call material she was entitled to through the authorized request.

I explained again which pages were transcript, which were system records, and which were my supplementary statement.

“Every word?” she asked.

“The transcript was checked against the audio.

My live notes alone weren’t a complete word-for-word recording.”

She found the passage about Derek.