supportive.
The hearing was scheduled for one o’clock.
I had forty-eight hours.
Rachel told me the judge would ask why I was doing this.
She warned me not to give him some polished heroic answer.
Judges hear rehearsed sincerity every day.
So for those two days, I thought about my real reason.
There wasn’t one neat answer.
Maybe that was the point.
I grew up with a father who left when I was three.
Our mother worked two jobs.
Dana was four years older than me, and for too much
