Simone got supervised visitation at a facility, two hours a week, paid for by her.

And then it took ten more months to get to a final hearing, because a guardian ad litem was appointed and guardians ad litem take as long as they take.

Hers was a woman named Lurline Petty, sixty-six, who had done that work for twenty-two years and who did not like me.

She interviewed Wren five times.

She interviewed me three.

She went to Simone’s apartment and to my house and to Wren’s school and to Dr.