And then — this is the last piece and it is the one that made me do the thing in Part Thirteen — you realize that you are being asked to prove a negative, in a case where the only other people who can speak to the timeline have an interest in the answer.

My sister had said, to a doctor, in front of witnesses, when we left her with Alma, she was perfectly fine.

If that sentence were true, there is only one place the injury could have happened.

I want to say clearly that I do not believe my sister said it in order to do that.

I did believe it for four months.

I do not now.