It is not a montage.

It is a woman who was already two years into a legal fight taking on three more, unpaid, while her seven-year-old learns to sleep in a separate room from her twin.

Part Fifteen: The Thing I Got Wrong

I have been asked to speak about this eleven or twelve times since — at two academies, at a county training day, once at a conference for child advocacy staff where I was very much the least qualified person in the building.

And every time, somebody asks me what I would tell a young officer, and for about two years I gave the wrong answer.

The wrong answer is: trust your instincts.