Evelyn moved them, changed the school, changed her own name back and theirs with it, and went to about a hundred and fifty appointments in three years.

She also lost her job for a while, which nobody warns you about.

Not fired — she took unpaid leave in the second term because a teacher cannot be in a courtroom on a Tuesday, and it turned into most of a year, and it cost her everything she had.

There was a fund.

Three of us at the precinct put it together, quietly, and Reyes did most of the work, and it did not cover much and she took a long time to accept it and eventually did because her daughter needed dental work.

That is what it costs.