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“Every time I feel that I’m missing her, I come here and sit with her, drink a cup of coffee, smoke a cigarette, talk to her … because this is the last place she was alive and happy,” she said.

“Don’t you think you ought to talk to him after this interview?” he said.

“I haven’t been able to talk to him, I don’t know what kind of shape he’s in, and that makes me really scared,” said Ruth Kremen, Adler’s mother.

She’d have said how it felt to be in the lobby of the police station during my interrogation along with the other mothers waiting for their children, how she heard my cries as I was brutally beaten, and how the police refused to talk to her when they were bringing me through to the back, where she heard them keep on with the beating.

“Insurance companies don’t pay you to talk to patients. They pay you to do things with patients,” says Michelle Thibeault, a pelvic floor physical therapist in Meriden, Connecticut.