CNU-At my mother’s Sunday dinner, my sister offered to take my five-year-old daugh…

if that makes her a bad daughter.”

I looked at him.

“What did you say?”

“I said protecting yourself doesn’t make you bad.”

For the first time, I felt something like respect for him.

The emotional turn came two months later, when Taryn wrote to me.

The letter arrived through David Kim’s office, as required by the no-contact order. He called first.

“You don’t continue reading …