It’s been about two years.

She’s expecting a child in June and there’s no ambiguity about the father because he’s told four people.”

I said, “Okay.”

And then I said, “Does Toby know?”

Which is what I actually said, and which the advocate later told me is what almost every woman says, and which I did not know at the time was a completely standard sentence.

Here is what came out over the following year, and I am going to be careful with it, because Valerie Nkemdirim went to prison and she also, in my honest assessment, was not the architect of anything.