I thought about the specific cruelty of using the thing someone loves against them.
Using it to rob them and then telling them they must have misplaced it.
The judge spoke to both lawyers.
Diane came to me.
She said: here is what is being offered.
She said: full restoration of the sixty-one thousand dollars.
She said: the marital home.
She said: half the value of the business assets, because he is claiming those are his.
She said: and the ring.
I said: the ring.
She said: they have it.
She said: apparently it’s been with his mother.
I said: I know.
She said: Angela.
She said: this is a good outcome.
She said: better than we had any right to expect this morning.
I said: yes.
I said: I know.
I said: is there anything about the rest of it?
She said: what do you mean.
I said: the fraud.
