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Oh my, but it was a hard-hitting cross-examination, the lawyer for the mother grilling a former girlfriend of the father about whether, when the child in question was visiting once, she had made the mac-and-cheese with the verboten yellow cheese, or white.

After a decade of litigation, this is what it has come to in one of the longer-running child-custody cases in Ontario Court.

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The case in question is 10 years old going on 11.

The child in question is 10 going on 11.

The child, according to the mother, is the one with the allergy to foods with yellow food dye; the child, according to the doctors who have testified here, doesn’t have that allergy. The mother insists the child travel always with EpiPens, in case of anaphylactic shock.

The child was in therapy for the first time at the age of two, though described as a bright, even remarkable, engaged youngster.

The trial itself is almost a year old; the previous judge, in her wisdom, allotted fewer than 10 days for evidence. That’s meant the days she didn’t assign have been spread over months, a day here, a day there, since it began last June.