I’m telling you that if you’re doing it to feel something at the end of today, you’re going to be disappointed at about six o’clock.”

And I said: “I’m not doing it for today.”

He waited.

“My daughter is four.

In about eleven years she is going to be old enough to want the whole file, and she is going to read it, because she’s mine and she’ll want to know.

And she is going to find, in there, four adults’ accounts of why they did what they did, all of which are going to say that it was a misunderstanding about a bracelet.