I have written to him twice through the building’s management company and both letters went unanswered and I have decided not to try again.

Douglas’s account, then and since, is that he forgot.

He has never varied from it.

Not in an interview, not in a deposition, not in a family court proceeding, not once in twelve years.

He forgot she was in the car.

He was upset about the morning and he went up to his office and he forgot.

I believe him.

I want to put that in, because it is the single most unpopular sentence in this entire account and I have had it argued with by four different people including my own brother.