She saw Dr.

Alvear for two years and then intermittently until she was twelve, and she is, by every measure anybody has, doing well — with the specific caveat that she has periods, usually in April, that everybody in her life has learned to leave alone.

She knows everything.

Margaret made that decision at nine, on Dr.

Alvear’s advice, in stages: the fact at seven, the manner at nine, the money at eleven, the whole file whenever she asks for it, which she has not yet.

She calls him Nathan.