The Girl Who Hid It in Her Shoe

Delilah, who was in significant pain, laughed at the part about the light.

And at about the eight-minute mark, Charlotte — who had not said anything — asked Pearl a question, and Pearl wrote it down for me afterward on a Post-it note because she thought I would want it, and she was right, and I still have it.

Charlotte asked: “Do you have to tell the truth in a police station?”

And Pearl said, “Yes, love.”

And Charlotte said, “Does everybody?”

And Pearl said, “Everybody. Including the grown-ups.”