“There’s a laminated poster in a plywood box in a van, and the whole thing — the whole argument, the whole case, the entire moral structure of it — rests on she never came back. And she came back.

In 2013.

And offered supervised visitation with a counselor.

And put it in writing.

“If I’d opened that crate tomorrow and she’d stood up in front of a hundred and fifty people and said I came to a Denny’s on Hammer Lane in October 2013 and your father threatened to call the police — Dad.

Do you understand what would have happened to me in that room?”

I said I did.