“And about a third of them are cases where a parent is doing the work and needs more time, and if this building ran fast, those children would lose their parents on a schedule instead of on the merits.

“The slowness is not a failure of the system.

It’s most of what’s decent about it, and it is also going to cost you a hundred and forty hours of your life, and both of those are true.”

I have thought about that more than almost anything anybody said to me in that building.

It is the same shape as everything else in this account.

Two things that are both true, sitting next to each other, refusing to resolve.