It’s information.

When something feels wrong, and the people around you insist that nothing is, it is not disloyal to keep asking.

It is the most loyal thing you can do.

Harper is ten now.

She plays the cello badly and with total joy.

She’s afraid of nothing except spiders and long division.

And every afternoon, when the school bell rings, I’m the one standing at the gate.

PART 19
When we finally moved to the little house outside Austin, the first thing Harper noticed was the crooked porch step.