An Unopened Medical File From a Colorado Lake House Clinic

is ten years old, Olivia,” Dr. Patel said. “It was never set.”

The words sat in the small room like heavy objects.

“Ten years,” Caroline said, her voice dropping an octave. “She would have been twelve.”

“A twelve-year-old child with an injury of this severity would have been in agonizing pain,” Dr. Patel said. “She would not have been continue reading …