Home Entertainment Game Technology Advertisement Part 2: For eight years, my parents made me leave the house every time my brother brought his fiance over; Mom said, “She comes from a good family, don’t embarrass us”; Dad added, “Just disappear for the weekend”; I did; then one weekend, I never came back; it took them four years to find out where I went.

Accompanied by photographs.

Receipts.

Dates.

I read the first sentence twice.

My granddaughter Stacey Benton is alive as of the date of this declaration, and her parents, Carl and Elaine Benton, know that she is alive.

Mara had wanted Grandma to soften the language.

Grandma refused.

That sounded like her.

The affidavit described seeing me at her house.

Receiving a birthday card from me.

Speaking to me by phone.

Receiving vegetables I grew at the garden center.

Mundane proof.

Powerful precisely because it was mundane.

Dead people do not bring tomatoes.

Then:

Carl told me the family had “already received the money” and that correcting the record would destroy Mitch's future and cause criminal problems for everyone involved.

My hands turned cold.

Grandma continued:

I told him criminal problems are usually caused by committing crimes.

I laughed.

Avery did too.

Then she cried.

Grandma wrote that Dad had begged her not to contact authorities.