But intention is not the point and it never was.

It did not matter one bit what Perla Restrepo meant by that sentence.

What mattered was that it was on a chart, in a hospital, in the handwriting of an attending physician, and that it pointed at exactly one person, and that the person it pointed at was the one who had driven the child in.

And the thing about being pointed at is that you do not get to be the same person afterward.

I was, until the eleventh of October 2022, a woman who fundamentally believed that if you tell the truth carefully enough, it works.