It is in the file.

It will be in the file forever.

And it is the truest sentence I said in that entire year.

The case was substantiated eleven weeks later against Beatrice Voss and Brenda Voss for physical abuse and against Raymond Voss for exposing a child to domestic assault.

It was not substantiated against me or, in the end, against Mitchell, though he was assessed for four months and it was not a comfortable four months for him.

Daisy was interviewed once, at a children’s advocacy center in a room with a rug and a camera in the ceiling, by a forensic interviewer named Kirsten who was extraordinary.