about mental health, but he knew enough that he should call someone, so he started calling any psychologist in the phone book to make an appointment for Erica. But none could make any headway. She would just clam up, not saying a word. Manny wasn’t convinced that they were trying their hardest. He always had the feeling that the doctors knew who they were from the newspapers, and had convinced themselves of the Alverezes guilt already. Their greatest motivation to help Erica would be to expose some secret or detail that would credit them with a conviction. But they got nothing, and Erica continued her daily parley in the garden. Until that day when she knocked on their door. She had gotten their address from a colleague whom she saw often, who was gossiping about his patients one day, among other things. M...

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