At a small Chicago clinic, an Alaska nurse called about my daughter and said, “Your son-in-law hasn’t been here.” I booked the first flight north without crying, and by dawn, his Bahamas honeymoon was no longer the worst thing I’d found. – News

One boy wrote, in a tilted careful hand, “When I was scared to read out loud she tapped the page and said, ‘We’re not doing brave all at once. We’re doing it sentence by sentence.’”

I took those folders home and read until I had no tears left.

That was the night I stopped thinking of the foundation as something I was building for Emily.

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