I want the girls to have enough choice not to confuse security with isolation, Evelyn wrote.

Money can build a wall or open a door.

They will decide which.

Paige sat quietly while Miriam read.

“I remember her pharmacies,” she said.

“We got peppermints when we visited.

I thought everybody’s grandmother owned a store.”

Miriam told us that Chloe had asked for a copy of the letter long before she entered the hospital.