So when the man who knew told me what the law was, I did not experience it as a claim.

I experienced it as information.

Part Ten: What I Was Actually Exposed To

The thing Patricia told me in the second half of that meeting frightened me considerably more than the first half had relieved me, and it is the part that nobody puts in these accounts.

I had two children with me and no legal right to have them.

Not because I had done anything.