She had her own listing at ten past eleven, two floors up, to vary an order from 2020.
Because in 2019 and 2020, Rosamund Kerr went through the identical thing.
June was a baby then and the child in that process was not June; it was the evidence of adults. There were statements from Garrick and from his mother describing a woman who was volatile and unstable and not managing.
Rosamund lost primary care in the March of 2020 and did not get it back until the following February.
Eleven months.
She has been trying to get that order properly varied ever since, and she was in that building that day because it had finally been listed after two adjournments.
She brought June because her own mother, who usually has her, was in hospital, and because the family waiting area is exactly what it is for.
June wandered about forty feet to the water cooler.
That is all of it. There was no plan and nobody engineered anything. Two women who had been made into the same woman by the same man happened to be in the same building on the same Thursday because both matters had been adjourned twice.
PART 5 — WHAT I DIDN’T ASK FOR
The petition was withdrawn. Judge Vane would not take it, and said so plainly, and adjourned the financial side for eight weeks with an order for full disclosure that I had not asked for and would not have asked for.
I did not want the house and I still do not and I have not taken it. That part of what I said in that room was true and I have not changed my mind about one word of it.
What I took, in the end, was half the savings and nothing else, because a solicitor sat me down in the February and explained what I was actually doing when I surrendered everything, which was handing a man a very strong argument about which parent could provide.
I had not thought about it that way for one second. I had thought about it as being clean.
Cormac was born in the April. He is nine months old.
