I sat at a kitchen table in Modesto with that on it for a long time.

I want to say two things about that paragraph and then I am done with it.

The first is that it is a woman who abandoned six children explaining to the man who raised them that they are really rather similar, and that there is something obscene about it, and I felt the obscenity of it in my chest before I had finished the sentence.

The second is that the part about the system is true.