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

The rest is typed.”

“Yes.”

Marisol picked up her blue pen and signed the emergency affidavit at the bottom.

She dated it and wrote down the time.

“Administrative fraud,” she said.

“That’s the phrase the judge will understand.”

I sat down across from her.

“Will it hold?”