I am not going to claim that Emerson Avenue was in my mind on the ninth of April.

It was not.

I had not thought about it in years.

But I have wondered since whether there is such a thing as a debt you pay without noticing you are paying it.

She said that officers lose disclosures constantly, and almost never because the child would not talk.

They lose them because the officer, meaning well, asks a leading question, or fills a silence, or supplies a word, and the moment you supply the word, the disclosure is worthless in a courtroom and the child has learned that you were not really listening anyway.