The fund launched on a Thursday.
Aria knew it would be covered — Clara had managed the press carefully, releasing the details to three financial outlets and two general news platforms simultaneously. Clean coverage. Factual. The Gerald Bennett Memorial Restitution Fund, established by Cole Enterprises, administered by an independent advisory board chaired by Helen Park.
What she hadn't anticipated was how it would feel to see her father's name on the front page of a newspaper.
She bought a physical copy from the stand outside her subway station — something she hadn't done in years. Stood on the pavement in the cold morning with the paper open and her father's name in print above the fold and felt something move through her that wasn't grief and wasn't joy and was somehow both simultaneo
