I fought for that last one and Perla did not want it and the therapist backed me, and the argument I made is the only argument I have ever won against my sister.

I said: “She is going to be able to request every page of this herself the day she turns eighteen.

It is her case.

Her name is on it.

“So the only question is whether she reads it in a room with us or in a room without us.”

Perla agreed in that session and has never gone back on it.

Esme asked me a question in the car in the August, at four, out of nowhere, at right angles, the way they do.