She never showed it to me.

She never confronted me.

She never once said the word she must have been thinking for nine years.

She gave it to my lawyer, in a paper bag, in the August of 2013, and then she sat in the car.

I asked her about it afterward, in her kitchen, and I was angry, because if she knew then why did she never say anything, and she let me be angry for about four minutes.

And then she said: “Because if I’d said it, you’d have had to defend him.