The transformation does not erase the tragedy; it redeems it, which is different and more honest.

And I chose, deliberately, to redeem mine.

I took the smartwatch that had saved my life by pure desperate accident, and I resolved to build it, on purpose, into a tool that would save others, so that the thing that had reached into my darkness and pulled me out would be engineered to reach into the darkness of strangers I would never meet.

I took my dead children’s memory and made it the name of a foundation that would fund the care of thousands of living children.