\u201cStop it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rachel touched the keyboard.<\/p>\n
Derek froze on the screen, one shoulder turned toward the camera.<\/p>\n
I had expected to feel relief.<\/p>\n
For thirty days, I had wanted someone else to hear what I heard. I had imagined that another person saying yes, that happened, would put the night somewhere outside my body.<\/p>\n
Instead, I felt sick.<\/p>\n
The recording made it possible to stand across the street and watch what I had survived.<\/p>\n
From that distance, our house looked small.<\/p>\n
There was no way to understand from the image how much of the world had narrowed to Noah\u2019s weight in my arms.<\/p>\n
Rachel moved the tissue box within reach without pushing it toward me.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you want to stop for today?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
My voice was rough.<\/p>\n
\u201cI need to know what\u2019s there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Grant shifted in his chair.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe camera runs continuously overnight. It isn\u2019t just motion clips.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rachel nodded.<\/p>\n
She had already spoken to him about the system, the file, and the steps he had taken to save it.<\/p>\n
I appreciated that there was work someone could do without needing to feel what I felt.<\/p>\n
\u201cPlay it,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n
Derek\u2019s hand moved at the lock.<\/p>\n
The streetlight caught something small between his fingers.<\/p>\n
He stepped backward, tested the door once, and turned toward the SUV.<\/p>\n
The recording did not bring the key close enough to identify its shape.<\/p>\n
It did not show the mechanism inside the door.<\/p>\n
Rachel said that plainly when I looked at her.<\/p>\n
But it showed his hand.<\/p>\n
It showed him test the closed door.<\/p>\n
And when Grant came running into the frame moments later, it showed the front entrance refusing to open.<\/p>\n
I watched Grant pull at it.<\/p>\n
He switched hands.<\/p>\n
He leaned his shoulder against it, then recoiled and shook his palms.<\/p>\n
My broken window flashed above him.<\/p>\n
A piece of screen fell into the bushes.<\/p>\n
Then I appeared, lowering Noah.<\/p>\n
I made a sound I had not intended to make.<\/p>\n
Rachel paused the video again.<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember his feet slipping,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n
Neither of them spoke.<\/p>\n
\u201cUntil now, I thought maybe I had imagined how far down it was.\u201d<\/p>\n
Grant folded his hands together.<\/p>\n
\u201cI saw you holding him.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at him.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou saw?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
There had been another human being in that moment.<\/p>\n
Not inside the room, not close enough to help with the window, but there.<\/p>\n
For some reason, knowing that undid me more than hearing Derek\u2019s voice.<\/p>\n
Rachel gave us a few minutes.<\/p>\n
When we resumed, the recording showed Grant on his phone, looking up toward the roof.<\/p>\n
Derek stood at the SUV.<\/p>\n
At one point, Grant turned toward him and pointed at the house.<\/p>\n
I could not make out Grant\u2019s words.<\/p>\n
Derek shook his head.<\/p>\n
He did not go onto the porch.<\/p>\n
He did not approach the ladder when it arrived.<\/p>\n
The wide view kept showing what his sworn account had erased.<\/p>\n
Distance.<\/p>\n
The road between him and us.<\/p>\n
The ordinary steps he could have taken and did not.<\/p>\n
Rachel let the recording continue through the firefighters\u2019 arrival.<\/p>\n
Then she closed the laptop.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have several kinds of evidence here,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
I wiped my face.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe recording is one. Your account is another. The medical records, the emergency records, the messages, and Grant\u2019s observations all matter.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe lied.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes. But we\u2019re going to show the differences carefully. We don\u2019t need to make the recording prove more than it proves.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happens now?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe respond to the custody request. We ask for an early hearing on temporary arrangements. We preserve the original file and get what we need to explain it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWill Noah have to watch it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo,\u201d she said. \u201cWe will not show him this.\u201d<\/p>\n
I had not realized I was holding my breath until she answered.<\/p>\n
Grant left before I did.<\/p>\n
At the door, he stopped.<\/p>\n
\u201cI should have checked the sound sooner.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou saved it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut if I\u2019d listened\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou came over barefoot.\u201d<\/p>\n
He looked down at his shoes as if the fact surprised him.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou called for help,\u201d I said. \u201cYou tried the door.\u201d<\/p>\n
His mouth tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was a key in it once, wasn\u2019t there? Inside?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOn a hook.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI remembered seeing you use it when we brought over those chairs.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI kept thinking you must be trying another exit.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo did I,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n
Neither of us knew what to do with that.<\/p>\n
We settled for a careful hug that kept his healing palms away from my coat.<\/p>\n
At home, Noah was building a garage from cereal boxes with Laura.<\/p>\n
He ran toward me carrying a strip of tape stuck to two fingers.<\/p>\n
\u201cLook. Both sides open.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s good,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n
Laura met my eyes over his head.<\/p>\n
Later, while Noah ate lunch, I told her only what she needed to know.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a recording.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her hand stopped on the cupboard handle.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll of it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEnough.\u201d<\/p>\n
She closed the cupboard slowly.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you have to hear him?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
She took the empty bread bag from me.<\/p>\n
For the rest of that afternoon, she stayed without finding a reason.<\/p>\n
Rachel arranged for the native recording to be copied and preserved.<\/p>\n
Grant kept the downloaded original untouched. A person Rachel used for digital evidence documented the file and the camera system, including its time settings and the way it exported footage.<\/p>\n
I had imagined proof as something you discovered.<\/p>\n
I learned how much of proof was keeping a discovery from being damaged.<\/p>\n
Do not trim this.<\/p>\n
Do not send a version through a messaging app.<\/p>\n
Do not add captions.<\/p>\n
Do not improve the sound yourself.<\/p>\n
Keep the original phone.<\/p>\n
Keep the original messages.<\/p>\n
Write down what you remember without trying to fill the places you do not.<\/p>\n
That last instruction was the hardest.<\/p>\n
In my notebook, I wrote that I could not be certain how many seconds passed between the door shutting and my reaching it.<\/p>\n
I wrote that I had seen Derek at the entrance and later at the SUV, but not every movement between.<\/p>\n
I wrote that I had heard the lock.<\/p>\n
Then I left blank space beneath it.<\/p>\n
It felt like making holes in my own account.<\/p>\n
Rachel read the page and said, \u201cThat is what being accurate looks like.\u201d<\/p>\n
Derek called that evening.<\/p>\n
I watched his name on the screen until the call stopped.<\/p>\n
A message followed.<\/p>\n
We need to talk without lawyers making money off this.<\/p>\n
I sent it to Rachel.<\/p>\n
She said I could keep necessary communication about Noah in writing and did not need to discuss the case with him.<\/p>\n
Derek tried again the next morning.<\/p>\n
You\u2019re making this worse for him.<\/p>\n
I looked at Noah\u2019s cereal bowl.<\/p>\n
He had eaten around the broken pieces, leaving a careful ring of whole squares.<\/p>\n
I wanted to ask Derek whether he meant our son or himself.<\/p>\n
I wrote only, Please send any proposed visit arrangements through counsel.<\/p>\n
His answer came in capital letters.<\/p>\n
HE IS MY SON TOO.<\/p>\n
I put the phone facedown.<\/p>\n
For years, that sentence would have ended the argument.<\/p>\n
It had the weight of a truth.<\/p>\n
This time, I let it remain true without letting it decide everything else.<\/p>\n
The fire investigator\u2019s preliminary report arrived the following week.<\/p>\n
The likely origin was an electrical fault in the dining room wall.<\/p>\n
There was no finding that someone had deliberately started the fire.<\/p>\n
I read that part three times.<\/p>\n
One of Laura\u2019s friends had asked whether I thought Derek had set it.<\/p>\n
I had said I did not know.<\/p>\n
After the report, I knew what I could responsibly say.<\/p>\n
The fire was being treated as accidental.<\/p>\n
What happened at the door was a separate question.<\/p>\n
Rachel insisted we keep them separate.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll lose clarity if every terrible possibility gets attached to what we can establish.\u201d<\/p>\n
I was beginning to understand how easily anger could ask the truth to carry more than its own weight.<\/p>\n
There was already enough.<\/p>\n
The investigator\u2019s photographs showed the damaged entrance.<\/p>\n
Firefighters had forced the door during the response. The old lock and its surrounding hardware were documented among the debris.<\/p>\n
Nobody could produce the little interior key.<\/p>\n
I asked whether that meant anything.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt means the key hasn\u2019t been recovered,\u201d Rachel said.<\/p>\n
\u201cNothing more?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot by itself.\u201d<\/p>\n
I hated how often the honest answer was smaller than the one I wanted.<\/p>\n
Then I remembered Derek\u2019s petition.<\/p>\n
Every sentence in it had been polished into certainty.<\/p>\n
I decided I could bear smaller answers.<\/p>\n
At Noah\u2019s first counseling appointment, I sat beside a low shelf of wooden animals while he chose a fox.<\/p>\n
His therapist, Ellen Ward, spoke to him as though he had all the time he needed.<\/p>\n
She did not ask him to tell the fire story in front of me.<\/p>\n
She asked about school.<\/p>\n
About where he slept.<\/p>\n
About what helped when he felt worried.<\/p>\n
He said he liked knowing where everybody\u2019s shoes were.<\/p>\n
Afterward, Ellen asked to speak with me alone for a few minutes while Laura stayed with him.<\/p>\n
\u201cKeep routines as predictable as you can,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd try not to question him about what he remembers.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat if he brings it up?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cListen. Reassure him about the present. Write down anything important afterward, in his words, without making him repeat it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe asks why his father didn\u2019t help.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat do you tell him?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
She nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t have to invent an answer that makes it easier for the adults.\u201d<\/p>\n
The following night, Noah asked while I was rinsing shampoo from his hair.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid Daddy not see us?\u201d<\/p>\n
The cup stopped in my hand.<\/p>\n
There was a little tower of bubbles on his knee.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe saw us on the stairs.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen why didn\u2019t he come?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know why he made that choice.\u201d<\/p>\n
He looked toward the bathroom door.<\/p>\n
\u201cWas it because I got in your bed?\u201d<\/p>\n
I put the cup down.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
He watched me.<\/p>\n
\u201cNothing you did caused that, Noah. Coming into our room did not cause the fire, and it did not make any grown-up leave.\u201d<\/p>\n
I repeated it more slowly.<\/p>\n
He let me finish rinsing his hair.<\/p>\n
That night, I sat on the bathroom floor after he was asleep and cried into a towel so he would not hear.<\/p>\n
Rachel filed our response.<\/p>\n
Derek received the recording through his attorney.<\/p>\n
I knew the day because he sent me a message before lunch.<\/p>\n
Grant has always hated me. That video doesn\u2019t show what you think.<\/p>\n
I stared at it.<\/p>\n
Until then, he had told me my memory was wrong.<\/p>\n
Now his problem was with a camera.<\/p>\n
The next message arrived while I was saving the first.<\/p>\n
You think one bad minute makes me a bad father?<\/p>\n
I forwarded both to Rachel.<\/p>\n
She called within ten minutes.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo not answer those questions.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI wasn\u2019t going to.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGood.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe knows.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe knows we have evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n
That distinction mattered too.<\/p>\n
Knowing evidence existed did not mean he had accepted what it meant.<\/p>\n
His mother came to the rental two days later.<\/p>\n
I saw her through the glass and stepped outside before she could knock again.<\/p>\n
Noah was doing a puzzle in the living room.<\/p>\n
She held a department store bag.<\/p>\n
\u201cI brought him some pajamas.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThank you. You can leave them with me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMelanie, please.\u201d<\/p>\n
I shut the door behind me.<\/p>\n
She looked at the mat beneath our feet.<\/p>\n
There were no leaves on it. No smoke stains. No trace of the home she had visited for nearly a decade.<\/p>\n
\u201cDerek says you\u2019ve got some video.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOur attorneys are handling it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was frightened.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo was Noah.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe loves that boy.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at the bag.<\/p>\n
Through the thin plastic, I could see a sleeve covered with cartoon spaceships.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid he tell you he said he didn\u2019t care whether I survived?\u201d<\/p>\n
Her face changed.<\/p>\n
Only slightly.<\/p>\n
Enough.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe told me you were both saying things.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI was asking him to take Noah.\u201d<\/p>\n
She pressed her lips together.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have to think about what happens to a man\u2019s life when allegations like this follow him.\u201d<\/p>\n
I heard the rental refrigerator switch off inside.<\/p>\n
In the sudden quiet, I could hear Noah moving puzzle pieces.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am thinking about a child\u2019s life,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n
She handed me the bag.<\/p>\n
I thanked her for the pajamas.<\/p>\n
She left without asking to see him again.<\/p>\n
That evening, Derek\u2019s lawyer proposed a meeting between counsel.<\/p>\n
Rachel called it an attempt to discuss temporary arrangements.<\/p>\n
I called it the first time Derek had offered to discuss anything since filing for sole custody.<\/p>\n
The proposal was for alternating weeks.<\/p>\n
We would each agree not to make statements about the other parent to third parties.<\/p>\n
I asked what \u201cthird parties\u201d meant.<\/p>\n
Rachel said the language was too broad and she would not recommend it.<\/p>\n
\u201cCould that include a therapist?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAs written, it invites arguments we don\u2019t need.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOr the investigator?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is not language we\u2019re accepting.\u201d<\/p>\n
I sat back.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe wants me quiet.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe wants an agreement,\u201d she said. \u201cYou are allowed to reject the terms.\u201d<\/p>\n
That was another sentence I had needed long before the fire.<\/p>\n
We offered supervised daytime contact while the court considered the evidence.<\/p>\n
Derek refused.<\/p>\n
His attorney said supervision was humiliating.<\/p>\n
Rachel asked whether he wanted a visit arranged under the proposed conditions.<\/p>\n
No date was selected.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Noah returned to school.<\/p>\n
His teacher had kept his cubby beside the same window.<\/p>\n
A classmate gave him a drawing of four dogs standing in a field. Noah folded it and brought it home with unusual care.<\/p>\n
\u201cCan we send this to Daddy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
I photographed it.<\/p>\n
He dictated a message asking whether Rosie still stole Buster\u2019s food.<\/p>\n
Derek replied with a voice recording about how much he missed him.<\/p>\n
Noah listened twice.<\/p>\n
Then he asked if the dogs could visit.<\/p>\n
I did not promise.<\/p>\n
I told him I would ask.<\/p>\n
It would have been easier if his feelings matched mine.<\/p>\n
If he had looked at Derek and seen only the man at the door.<\/p>\n
But Noah missed his father.<\/p>\n
He missed the dogs.<\/p>\n
He missed the squeak in our old back gate and the place under the dining table where he parked toy trucks.<\/p>\n
I was responsible for keeping him safe without teaching him that missing those things was a betrayal of me.<\/p>\n
Some days, that required more discipline than anything I had ever done.<\/p>\n
The hearing was set for a Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n
Rachel met with me the Friday before.<\/p>\n
She walked me through the room, the order of witnesses, the possibility that the judge might ask questions directly.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnswer what is asked,\u201d she said. \u201cIf you don\u2019t know, say so.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat if I cry?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen you cry.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat if he says I\u2019m unstable?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe already has. We\u2019ll address what he says with evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n
She asked me to practice explaining why I went back upstairs instead of toward the kitchen.<\/p>\n
I answered too quickly.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe stairs were there, and the kitchen was\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSlow down.\u201d<\/p>\n
I tried again.<\/p>\n
I described the heat.<\/p>\n
The crack from the rear of the house.<\/p>\n
The orange light over the dining room.<\/p>\n
The fact that I could still find the stairs with my hand.<\/p>\n
Halfway through, I began defending myself against questions nobody had asked.<\/p>\n
Rachel raised one finger.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t have to make it sound easy. It wasn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stared at the seam in my coat.<\/p>\n
\u201cI keep thinking I should have done something sooner.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou got Noah out.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI couldn\u2019t open the window.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo you broke it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI cut myself.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd you got him out.\u201d<\/p>\n
I pressed my lips together.<\/p>\n
She let the silence remain.<\/p>\n
Before I left, she asked what outcome I wanted at the temporary hearing.<\/p>\n
It seemed obvious until I tried to say it.<\/p>\n
I wanted Derek to admit what he had done.<\/p>\n
I wanted the judge to hear the contempt in his voice.<\/p>\n
I wanted his mother to stop calling it fear.<\/p>\n
But none of those was the order the court needed to make.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want Noah living with me,\u201d I said. \u201cI want any contact to happen where somebody can intervene. I don\u2019t want him taken somewhere and told his mother caused this.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rachel wrote that down.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is what we\u2019ll ask for.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Monday, Laura took Noah to the library while I sorted documents.<\/p>\n
I placed the hospital record beside the fire report.<\/p>\n
The photographs.<\/p>\n
The messages.<\/p>\n
The envelope that had arrived exactly thirty days after the house burned.<\/p>\n
The walnut jewelry box remained with Derek.<\/p>\n
I had asked for it twice through Rachel.<\/p>\n
His lawyer said belongings would be addressed during the property process.<\/p>\n
My grandmother\u2019s wedding ring was inside.<\/p>\n
So were two notes she had written in birthday cards, folded beneath the lining because I had once thought that was a safe place.<\/p>\n
I wanted it back.<\/p>\n
But as I looked at the paperwork on the table, I realized Derek had carried the box out because he understood that some things were valuable.<\/p>\n
The problem was never that he had failed to understand value.<\/p>\n
Tuesday morning was wet.<\/p>\n
Laura arrived before seven with breakfast nobody wanted.<\/p>\n
Noah asked why I was wearing the coat I saved for funerals and school meetings.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have an important appointment.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWith the judge?\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at Laura.<\/p>\n
We had told him adults were working out where he would stay. I had not intended him to remember the word.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDo I have to go?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
His shoulders dropped.<\/p>\n
\u201cWill you come back before dinner?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
I knelt so he did not have to tilt his head.<\/p>\n
\u201cAunt Laura is picking you up. I\u2019ll be here after.\u201d<\/p>\n
He looked at the front door.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have your key?\u201d<\/p>\n
I took it from my pocket and put it in his hand.<\/p>\n
He examined it, then gave it back.<\/p>\n
At the courthouse, Grant was waiting near the security line.<\/p>\n
He wore a navy suit and shoes polished so carefully the wet pavement had already spoiled them.<\/p>\n
His hands were uncovered.<\/p>\n
\u201cMorning,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThank you for coming.\u201d<\/p>\n
He gave a brief nod.<\/p>\n
Derek stood farther down the hall with his lawyer.<\/p>\n
He had cut his hair.<\/p>\n
His tie was one I had bought him.<\/p>\n
When he saw Grant, his expression changed before he could smooth it away.<\/p>\n
He walked toward me.<\/p>\n
Rachel stepped out of the courtroom at the same moment.<\/p>\n
\u201cMelanie, come with me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Derek stopped.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just want to talk to my wife.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCommunication about the case goes through counsel,\u201d Rachel said.<\/p>\n
He looked past her.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know I would never hurt Noah.\u201d<\/p>\n
I had answered versions of that sentence for weeks.<\/p>\n
That morning, I did not.<\/p>\n
Inside, the room was smaller than I expected.<\/p>\n
There were no sweeping rows of benches, no place where grief would be made to look grand.<\/p>\n
Just tables, chairs, screens, a clerk, and a judge with a stack of files.<\/p>\n
Derek sat across the aisle.<\/p>\n
When his attorney began, I heard the mother I had supposedly been become a person assembled from adjectives.<\/p>\n
Volatile.<\/p>\n
Disorganized.<\/p>\n
Unable to make safe decisions under pressure.<\/p>\n
The fire was described as an emergency in which Derek had coordinated the evacuation of the family\u2019s animals while attempting to direct me toward the exit.<\/p>\n
I kept my hands flat in my lap.<\/p>\n
Then Derek testified.<\/p>\n
He said he remembered the heat most clearly.<\/p>\n
He said he had called to me.<\/p>\n
He said he remained near the porch, waiting for an opportunity to help.<\/p>\n
His lawyer asked whether he had abandoned his child.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The word was clear.<\/p>\n
Unhurried.<\/p>\n
When Rachel stood, she took only one sheet of paper with her.<\/p>\n
\u201cMr. Carter, is your testimony that you remained at the porch until emergency personnel arrived?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd that you did not secure the front door against your wife and son?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t lock anybody in.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rachel glanced toward Grant.<\/p>\n
Then she asked the judge for permission to proceed with the recording.<\/p>\n
END PART 2<\/p>\n