Simone did her six months and came out in the August of the second year and began supervised visitation again in the October, two hours every other Saturday, at a facility in Nacogdoches with a monitor in the room and a form to fill out.

She did fifty-one of those before anything changed.

I want to give her that properly, because I have given her very little else.

Fifty-one Saturdays, two hours, in a room with a stranger taking notes, driving an hour and forty minutes each way from where she lives now, for two years, on a probation that says she cannot be alone with her own daughter.

She has not missed one.