Valerie Came Home From Deployment to Find Her Twelve-Year-Old Daughter in Intensive Care

“That’s the accident,” she said.

“That’s the accident.

The first call came twenty-three minutes later.”

At the bottom of the page I wrote one line: Abigail was in the car from 9:52 p.m. until 10:43 p.m.

I put the intake form in a plastic sleeve and marked the tab Exhibit A.

Elena set the hole punch down.

“What about the transfer request?”

I looked up.