Privacy

A note on privacy and names

This is a work of memoir, and memoir carries an obligation the newspaper does not: to protect the people who did not choose to be in it. There is another adult in this story, and there are two children, and none of them agreed to be written about. So I have not written about them.

Names, identifying details, locations, and the specifics of a legal process still underway have been changed, blurred, or left out entirely. Where I could not tell the truth without exposing someone who is not me, I kept the truth pointed where it belongs: at myself. Everything in these pages is filtered through the one interior I have any standing to report. If a detail here seems to describe a real person, it does not. It describes the inside of one man, in one crisis.

— Liudvikas Benediktas

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