One year after my divorce, I ran into my ex-husband in the pediatric wing of the hospital where I worked

in a drawer, and Halla has asked me twice why I keep it and I have not got an answer that satisfies either of us.

Yvie.

She was twenty-nine when she signed that statement.
I have read it about forty times. It is a page and a half and it is not, in itself, a lie — that is the clever bit, and it is the bit that tells you who drafted it.

It says that I worked long hours. True. It says I was distressed in the staff room on