She represents the child, which sounds like a formality and is not.

Marisol Vega interviewed my daughter four times.

She interviewed both of us twice.

She spoke to Dr.

Raghunathan, to the school, to Bennie, to Nell’s teacher, to my brother, and to Casper Rask in Milwaukee.

She came to my house and looked at it.

She came to Antonia’s apartment in Stamford and looked at that.

Her report is forty-one pages and it is the single most useful document produced by anybody in the whole of it, and it is not flattering about me.