Valerie Came Home From Deployment to Find Her Twelve-Year-Old Daughter in Intensive Care
“Update complete,” she said.
She wrote the time on the form and initialed it.
“You want certified copies of these pages, plus the request I filed?”
“Two copies.
One for me, and one for whoever ends up reading it.”
She fed the form into the copier, and the machine threw a green bar of light across her hands.
“When you find out who D.M. is,” I said, “I want it on paper.”
Marisol slid the copies into a large envelope and smoothed the flap down with her thumb.