It hit the rug and bounced once and lay there.

“I watched you take a stuffed rabbit out of a six-year-old’s hands,” he said.

“I watched my daughters flinch before you’d finished a sentence.

I watched Lorelai put herself in front of her sister without even looking, which is a thing children only learn one way.

I heard you tell a woman who has worked in my home for five years that you were going to file a false police report and destroy her career unless she got out of your way.”

“That was — I was angry, I said things—”