I was not a person who could not be excluded.

I was a person who had been used.

Those are extremely different things to be, and only one of them lets you sleep, and I chose the one that let me sleep and then I spent four months finding evidence for it.

Part Thirteen: How a Baby Actually Ends Up in Your House

People imagine that a social worker hands you a child in a corridor.

It is not like that and I want to set out what it is like, because the process is the story for the next eighteen months and almost nobody knows any of it.