Three days after my twin sons were born, my husband brought twenty-two members of his family into a hospital room and offered me two hundred thousand dollars to sign away my marriage, my children, and my right to ever ask about their company's accounts. They expected me to cry. I read every page and signed all of them.

I have never spoken to her. She wrote to me once, in the November. Four lines. The last one says she thinks about the folder.

The custody instrument was declared void in about nine minutes at the first hearing. The judge asked Caspian's attorney one question about the statutory waiting period and then asked whether anybody wished to be heard further.

I have sole custody. Caspian has supervised contact that he has used eleven times in two years.

The two hundred thousand dollars was never paid and I never asked for it and it would have come out of a trust account anyway.

Wilder and Arlo are two.

They are enormous and they are loud and Arlo has a thing about drains that I do not fully understand. They have been to see their grandmother twice with a supervisor present because a judge said they could and because I did not fight it, and both visits were fine, and I have no plans for a third.