“Because it’s a gift to the other side, and because it isn’t true, and because I am not having a document in this file in which the mother lists her own failures for a lawyer to read out.” A pause.

“Keep it for yourself.

Put it in a different file.

But it is not going in this one, and Val — I want you to hear this from me now, at the beginning, because you’re going to need it in about eight months.

“There is no version of the last two years in which a reasonable woman anticipates what those people did on Thursday.

None.