And certainly not me or my children, who had evolved along very narrow lines to be masters of a world that no longer existed.

But since the government couldn't admit that such children had ever existed, I was never charged with the crimes.

If such children existed, they might be taken and exploited.

In a vacuum, the children existed from day to day.

In fact, prosecutors say, the children did not exist.

There is no evidence that any such children ever existed.

It's unlikely he remembered a child existed after all these years.

If a child never existed, it could not suffer.

The two grown children who barely know I exist.

It was as if the child (and the pregnancy) had never existed.