Chapter 39 - nora destroyed the camera card but kept laurel’s letter
Years after every legal retention requirement ended, the attorney contacted me.
The physical evidence copies could finally be returned or destroyed.
Memory card.
Duplicated video archive.
Silver recorder.
Printed scene plan.
I asked Nora.
She was twenty-three.
Her answer surprised me.
“Destroy the card.”
“You sure?”
“Yes.”
“The recorder too?”
She thought.
“No.”
“Why?”
“That one was yours first.”
True.
She kept the silver recorder.
Not the files.
We wiped it.
Then she recorded a grocery list onto it as a joke.
Milk.
Coffee.
Toothpaste.
I almost cried.
Nora threatened to erase me next.
Laurel’s letter was different.
She kept the original.
Not because it was evidence against Marissa anymore.
Because it was from her mother.
The secret camera files had done their job.
They no longer needed to remain proof of Nora’s sanity.
That was perhaps the most important thing we destroyed.
May you like
Not evidence.
The idea that Nora needed evidence forever to deserve belief.
