They are two people in their seventies in a small apartment who cannot see their granddaughter, and who tell a version of this story to anybody who will listen, and there are, I am told, about four people left who still listen.

Brenda moved to Des Moines and lives with a cousin.

She is on a payment plan.

She has eleven years of it left.

She wrote to me once, through counsel, in the second year.

Naomi read it and told me it contained an apology and a request, and I said I did not want to know what the request was, and I have never asked.