Chapter 12
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January 27, 2018
Evie is born by emergency C-section. Steve sleeps in a chair for four days. The Walsh family fills the corridors. Then Tara gives him Adderall, and the fog returns.
Linda Russell
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Act II
Act VII
Chapter 35
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Equal Threats
The case passes to a fourth judge. At a twenty-three-minute video appearance Schauer vacates the Horowitz default on consent and issues mirroring stay-away orders — one against each party — rather than address the California restraining order against Tara. The poisoner and the poisoned are treated as symmetrical threats, and neither petition is heard. Steve tells the court a permanent temporary order does not give him a chance to face his accuser. The court tells him he is muddying the record.
Chapter 36
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Grandma's Letter
Steve asks the court to let his mother visit Evie instead. Linda Russell — a retired nurse who raised two sons who attended Stanford — drives thirteen hours round trip to Chappaqua. Walsh Sr. turns her away by phone. She persists. She gets the visits. She writes a letter to Judge Schauer documenting what she sees. Aunt K publishes it on StevieLovesEvie.com.
Chapter 37
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Erase, Deactivate, and Delete
Jennifer Jackman resigns as Attorney for the Child without explanation. Her replacement files a motion to suppress all blog content. A visitation conference is converted into a gag order hearing. Steve is declared in default. Judge Schauer orders the blog removed — every post, every photograph, every grandmother's letter. The words are precise. Erase. Deactivate. Delete.
Act IX
Chapter 49
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The Coward
A portrait of Stephen Walsh Sr. built from scenes, not diagnosis. The man who confronted a father in a public roadway but retreated from a five-foot-one nanny. Who arranged the ambush but was not in the car. Whose stammer under oath arrived whenever the questioning approached the truth.