Money could not buy twenty minutes with Melanie.

A legal claim might be valid or might not.

I did not need to decide while freshly grieving.

We preserved records.

Did not immediately file.

That was the right choice for me.

PART 31 — TOBY’S COUNSELOR

Toby began seeing a child grief therapist named Hannah Lee.

He loved her office because she had kinetic sand.

For several sessions, he barely spoke about Melanie.