The innatural thing appers to me being that Amanda doesn't remember at all of the call, and doesn't give weight to her calling her mother, nor puts weight (neither memory) to the reason of it.
This is why Amanda's answer is not natural and not credible, when crossed with the objective data of the timing of this call.
Of course you are entitled to such a subjective view. I believe I have good reasons to conclude otherwise - the fact that Amanda doesn't remember is perfectly natural and she is perfectly credible when answering questions about the call.
But my paraphrase is not of this particular Amanda's answer. It is a way to summarize Amanda's position on this topic expressed by Amanda's whole testimony.
OK, I have no problem with that, especially that there was not so much of her testimony on that topic apart from answers to Comodi's and Maresca's questions.
You want to focus you attention on one answer, in a restrict relation to a line of dialogue with Comodi. I don't.
Heavens forbid no! I don't want to restrict you in any way. My only humble request is to stick to the facts.
My summary/paraphrase is intended to consider the implication of the other Amanda's statements through the process, like this:
I again humbly ask which of those statements and their implications compelled you to include in your
paraphrase words
"and Meredith didn't answer the phone"?
You want to interpret what Amanda says by using Comodi's wording. I interpret what Amanda says using the rest of Amanda's tesimony. Do you understand why I use summary conclusions an paraphrases now?
Again, I don't dare to question your right to use summaries and paraphrases, as long as they are factual.
The points "a" and "c" are "your" points - those that you attribute to me - not my points.
OK, the a) is not so important. Point c) was:
c) Amanda is placing this "forgotten" call in the place where she was getting worried.
In this point I tried to
paraphrase what you wrote, and you wrote:
This answer is inantural, and moreover by this answer Amanda herself is placing this "forgotten" call in the place where she was getting worried, and Edda is placing the same content decribed by Amanda in the 12:47 call, exactlt the content Amanda guesses but doesn't remember.
I'm not sure if you stand by it or not, because now you write:
Amanda is not placing the call "when she is getting worried" because of the timing, but because Amanda has no better memory of the 12:47 call, and here she is simply not putting weight on - nor matching with a mamory - any different reason at all: she doesn't thinky to any reason and circumstance different from the one she already claimed to have forgotten.
It is also not factual. In the answer I quoted before Amanda clearly places the time of the call when she's back at Raffaele. And she says about that moment
"I did think there was something strange, but I didn't know what to think."
Which also confirms that time.
BTW Contrary to what you wrote this is different from Edda's account of that call, as it doesn't include a break-in nor missing Meredith. It clearly indicates that Amanda is trying to hypothesize (by Comodi's request) a call that would have happened at 12:00 (again by Comodi's suggestion). She doesn't remember that call so she has no reason to not believe the time that Comodi pushed and Massei confirmed.
It's quite obvious that if Comodi stated the time precisely, Amanda would have guessed the reason of the call immediately. But also Comodi would look like a fool asking a question like "why did you call your mother at 12:47 when you discovered the break-in, blood and missing friend? Did you have the habit of calling her at that time? Did it happen on other occasions?"
Finally one of the reasonable explanations why Amanda don't remember the first phone call to her mother goes like this:
When calling her mother Amanda was relating the same findings she reported moments earlier to Filomena, and moments later to the police and various people arriving at the scene. Because of that the call she made were not an outstanding event. She admited she remembers calling her mother, and she don't remember how many times. She made multiple calls to her. It is reasonable that they somewhat fused together in her memory. And the call with the strongest emotional impact was the one after the shocking discovery. That's why it's reasonable it was remembered as "the call" to her mother.
There is nothing in her testimony that would indicate she is insincere about it. That's why Comodi pushes her insinuations, interrupts Amanda constantly then loses interest and changes topic as soon as she is done with her dirty trick.
Good night
