The custody evaluator saw through him anyway, and I have often wondered what it was that did it, and eleven months later I asked her at a recess.

She said: “He never once said anything good about her.

Not one thing, in eleven hours of interviews.

Every parent in a contested case says at least one nice thing about the other one, even if it’s through their teeth, because they know they’re supposed to.

He never did.

He didn’t know that was a thing you’re supposed to do.”