Some payments were returned after mediation and document requests.

Others were contested.

The question of whether prosecutors would bring charges was not something Sandra or I controlled.

PART 12

I learned to sit with uncertainty without treating it as defeat.

That was harder than I expected.

Spencer had trained me to believe that every disagreement had to end that night, preferably with me apologizing.

The law moved at a different pace, and sometimes the next step was simply submitting a record and waiting for a response.