cnu-At my fortieth birthday party, my sister swung a baseball bat into…

hearing the sound that changed our family forever.

Part 7
The trial lasted four days.

People say that like it is a neat measure of time. Four days. Ninety-six hours. A workweek cut short.

But court time is different. It stretches. It drags you backward. It makes you sit still while strangers discuss the worst moment of your life in clean sentences.

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