She still, in some carefully renovated way, does.

Everybody around us wanted that not to be true.

My brother wanted it not to be true.

Two very good friends wanted it not to be true.

Every single person who heard any part of this wanted the answer to be that my daughter had been frightened of a bad man, because that is a story with a shape.

What we actually had was a little girl who had a grandfather for nineteen months and lost him, and who was told afterward by a great many adults that he had never really been a grandfather at all, which is not something a child can accept, because she was there.

Dr.