He discovered his daughter hiding in the bathroom, bruised—and then his father hurled a glass at them.
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Chapter 26 - The photograph
Three years after the party, I still had the photographs from the bathroom.
I did not keep them in my phone gallery.
They existed in legal archives and a protected file.
One afternoon Rosie saw the folder name on my laptop.
R CROSS MEDICAL PHOTOS
“What’s that?”
“Pictures from when you got hurt at Grandma’s house.”
“Can I see?”
I hesitated.
Her therapist later said my hesitation was probably wise.
We discussed it.
Rosie decided she did not want to.
“Do I look scary?”
“No.”
“Sad?”
“Yes.”
She thought.
“Then I remember enough.”
May you like
I closed the laptop.
Evidence does not need to become family memorabilia.
