I did not tell them my entire story.

I said only, “Financial information shouldn’t be a language used to keep people out of their own lives.”

A woman in the second row raised her hand.

“What if you’re embarrassed because you never learned any of this?”

“Then you start where you are,” I replied.

“You have every right to ask questions.”

After the session, I walked outside with Miles in his stroller.

He was old enough now to point at dogs and birds with tremendous excitement.