And I said, “She’s four and she’s a lot.”

And that woman, who has spent eleven years looking at the worst films in medicine, laughed like a drain in a conference centre in Rosemont.

Part Twenty-Nine: Precise

My sister used the word first.

It was in the November of 2022, in a corridor at the DCFS office in Maywood, after a supervised visit, and she said: “I just need you to be precise when you talk to them.”

And I said: “I will be precise.”