There is a photograph of her in the brace and she has seen it and finds it hilarious.

That is the whole of it and it is enough for four.

What she does not have yet, and what she will get, in stages, is who and how.

The plan — and there is an actual plan, written down, agreed between me and Perla in Elmhurst with a therapist present, because I have learned that agreeing things in writing is the only thing that works — has three stages.

At around seven or eight, if she asks: her father hurt her when she was a baby and that is why she does not see him.